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indications for existing drugs, improved formulations or combinations, and the establishment of simpler treatment protocols. For example, the treatment of malaria has improved signi®cantly in recent years as a result of clinical studies on available (old) drugs. In the long term, capacity should be built to transfer the results of basic research to the pre-clinical and clinical phase. Production capacity is already present to a limited extent, and should be expanded. Improve legal and regulatory environment

drugs dispensed daily 10 dropped babies daily $24.8 million mischarged hourly in banks 500 bad surgeries weekly 29 MANAGING PROJECTS WELL This brings us to our major focus: the cost of quality. Let’s start with a diagram, showing the old way of doing business on the left and the new way (with greater savings) on the right: Failure Failure Appraisal Prevention Appraisal Prevention Production Production Failure is reduced when prevention is increased 30 Building the

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users. FIs serve as conduits between users and savers of funds by providing a brokerage function and by engaging in an asset transformation function. The brokerage function can benefit both savers and users of funds and can vary according to the firm. FIs may provide only transaction services, such as discount brokerages, or they also may offer advisory services which help reduce information costs, such as full-line firms like BMO Financial Group. The asset transformation function is accomplished

and teaching practices, have to re-educate themselves to the use of such tools and methods. One cannot claim, on the one hand, that the world is changing, that new skills, attitudes and understanding are required, and on the other hand, perpetuate old patterns of how to screen job applicants or to how teach and assess the students at all levels of our educational system. If the current mathematics education is not preparing students for the world of work, then what the education is not doing for

and tactical one[11]. Increased value for external customers, through the provision of superior customer service, is recognized as a potential means to achieve profit and growth in today’s economy. Such potential may also be captured within the firm. It may be interpreted that internal marketing can be a source of sustainable competitive advantage. W. Drew and P. Chad state that a component that must be a valuable factor, should be rare among competitors, and costly or difficult to imitate[12]

de travailleurs indépendants et aux couches salariées supérieures. Le marché américain du véhicule neuf commence à changer de nature. S’il croît à nouveau, une fois la crise passée, grâce notamment à des réductions de prix laminant les marges des firmes, il le fait à un rythme nettement moins rapide qu’avant. Multiplié par 10 entre 1910 et 1919 (0, 17 à 1,76 million), il ne fait qu’un peu plus que doubler la décennie suivante (3,85 millions en 1929). Boyer R., Freyssenet M., « General Motors et

themselves, which then become chal¬lenges for the whole organisa¬tion. Interestingly, Michael Dell admits that he draws a lot of inspiration from Sam Walton (founder of Wal-Mart, the American retail chain) who started his company when he was 44 years old. The Dell Business Model Dell’s direct model starts and ends with its customers and takes five basic tenets as follows: Most Efficient Path to the Customer Based on a belief that the most efficient path to the customer is through a direct relationship

terme,  expriment  cette  difficulté  structurelle  qu’on les distributeurs de vêtement à s’en tenir à leur taille optimale.      STRADIVARIUS, 2008      ZARA HOME, 2008        ZARA      Page 26  La cannibalisation entre les différentes firmes du groupe  Aujourd’hui une consommatrice lambda, jeune, plutôt aisée et voulant être tendance mais à  petits prix a le choix entre ZARA, Pull&Bear et Stradivarius car ces marques proposent à peu  près  les  mêmes  produits  au  même  prix.  Dans 

that permit attention to the new,” wrote Marshall McLuhan (1964, p. 276), “To this end, the artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his [sic] audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.” In hypertext storytelling, it will be the artists driving change and the publishers trying to catch up. Interactivity, e-Learning, and e-Scholarship One area where digital content is clearly driving evolutionary—if not revolutionary—change