Every company is trying to increase its profits by generating more revenue while decreasing costs.
Review your past positions and the projects you were part of that produced quantifiable results by increasing revenues and decreasing costs for your employers.
What they should be doing instead is examining how other professions like engineering, consulting and software run their businesses with close attention to decreasing costs and increasing efficiency.
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Wholesale prices in the U.S. dropped for the first time in four months, pushed down by decreasing fuels costs.
The handset pricing has been on a continuous decline due to decreasing input costs associated with making a mobile phone.
For example, customers can choose to download applications that assist them in driving more safely or in a more fuel efficient manner, possibly decreasing the costs of vehicle ownership.
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Even small changes like RIM's shift to optical trackpads instead of trackballs in its new devices should improve profit margins by decreasing warranty costs, UBS analyst Phillip Huang said in an August note.
In an economy with ever-decreasing startup costs for new companies, 91% of ventures seeking their initial financing rounds during the past quarter have come to the table with something to show prospective investors.
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Brocade is building automation technology that is VM aware within their switches so that when a VM is migrated, the network and storage components needed for it to continue to function are also automatically reconfigured, thereby minimizing the manual labor that an administrator needs and decreasing your OpEx costs by increased automation.
Production costs of solar cells, and correspondingly, solar modules are also decreasing due to declining input costs, particularly polysilicon and silicon.
While storage costs are decreasing, they will level off soon as energy prices are growing.
In essence, NVIDIA is trying to open the doors to an even larger PC gaming base as costs are decreasing and current generation consoles are stagnating.
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Stockton is the largest city in the nation to file Chapter 9, as the city was encumbered with rising retiree health-care costs, decreasing tax revenues and a high foreclosure rate.
Gradually, this should reduce costs by decreasing unnecessary care.
Although costs are steadily decreasing due to greater efficiency, reliability and simplicity in operating deep-sea equipment, they remain relatively high.
It gives the supermarket chain's employees financial incentives for taking responsibility for their own health, decreasing Safeway's insurance costs significantly while improving participants' well-being.
Production cost of solar cells, and correspondingly, solar modules is also decreasing worldwide due to declining input costs, particularly polysilicon and silicon.
The connections between employee stress, decreasing productivity, and increasing healthcare costs are important reasons why managers and employees need to understand the factors that can cause job stress and put into place programs that monitor and reduce stress levels.
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They can raise prices only so much without decreasing sales, and many have already done so because of higher operating costs, such as commodity and gas prices and health-care premiums.
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