Network Rationalization (plant closures) and RAOI (post office branch closures) are not the answer.
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People also engage in dissipation, distraction, and rationalization to relieve the discomfort of pressure.
In my coaching work, I run smack into self-deluding rationalization on a daily basis.
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When he won, the rationalization was that it was all a shrewd if brutal campaign strategy.
Automating more of the rationalization processes has another advantage besides speed and standardization, Sams said.
According to Cressey, the three elements necessary for heightened fraud risk are: pressure, opportunity, and rationalization.
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Product rationalization and operational efficiencies are helping cost control and margin expansion at Rovi.
Moral rationalization, especially in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt, can be a challenge for consumers.
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The Minister commended the Director-General on her reform and rationalization efforts in a particularly tight budgetary context.
Longer term, we do have a data center rationalization plan for real-time cutover to our Western data center.
Another rationalization under consideration: combining the oil and gas operation with PreussenElektra to form a single, integrated energy operation.
The second aspect is that Europe is going thru a major rationalization process.
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Another liberal rationalization is that the cost-increasing regulations are meant to help people with pre-existing conditions, so they're worth it.
Without a proper rationalization of why your choices are going to help you create value, I cannot call it a strategy.
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Thus, we expect that a moral decoupling strategy will feel less wrong and be easier to justify than a moral rationalization strategy.
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The last-ditch rationalization is that a President deserves the advisers he picks.
Thinking is mostly just rationalization, mostly just a search for supporting evidence.
Some governments have opted to provide incentives for loss-making smelters to continue operating which is preventing the rationalization of high-cost capacity, thus depressing prices.
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They came away unpersuaded of the space-track rationalization for this radar.
This could encourage a much-needed rationalization of the EU airline industry.
He will work shoulder-to-shoulder with Reses in cost controls and rationalization.
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Trying to understand the rationalization or pressure Madoff faced to justify his actions will be debated for years but those answer are sure to only spark more questions.
This pattern of rationalization and decreased responsibility is "very common, " says Patrick Lyden, MD, the chair of the department of neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles.
With the three mergers and continuing rationalization at other banks, a net closure of 433 branches are expected in Korea this year, at a cost of some 4, 000 jobs.
For instance, there would be a merger: in the name of rationalization, the KM program would be declared a success and the leadership unit of the KM program would be gutted.
"The CAD (current account deficit) can be financed only through foreign inflows and that is why I'm happy to announce a major rationalization in government securities and corporate bonds, " Finance Minister P.
If we look at corporate performance in the early part of 2009, when we were going through a massive rationalization of corporate expense statements, companies were cutting costs by 20% or 25% in the face of serious sales declines.
The less inept, but more cynical alternative: The driver peeks and sees the dangerous hairpin turns, but finds that even allowing the possibility of a crash would terrorize passengers (making a crash, so the rationalization goes, even more likely).
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Forensic accountants make a living out of trying to figure out why and how people commit the financial crimes that they do, but Blind Spots is a look beyond the traditional fraud triangle of evaluating Opportunity, Pressure and Rationalization.
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