This means making the business aware of the risks and opportunities sustainability presents with our key customers, and then developing plans that benefit both parties.
But smaller rivals are playing catch-up here, too, by talking to customers about their needs and then developing custom-built software.
The big themes in recent years have been the financial crisis and the subsequent sluggish performance of first developed, and then developing, economies.
For the long term, he said he envisioned the town making inventories of the lands' special features and then developing a vision of what the town would like them to be.
Bennett Miller started research in 2005 and then developing the project two years later, bankrolled by billionaire backer Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, with Sony Pictures Classics distributing (they've also got Blue Jasmine and Before Midnight this season).
Masha does both, first avoiding the boy and then developing a crush on him despite his "adolescent chicken-neck" and "outdated jokes" and her suspicion that he has a girlfriend (which, it turns out, he does).
If everyone's hiring in teams of music geeks, getting them to make themed playlists and then developing ever-more clever algorithms to recommend those playlists to listeners, how can any of these services stand out?
What I always hope my clients will learn from our therapeutic encounters is how to become better "life scientists": first in identifying the problem or goal, collecting relevant data, interpreting it and then developing and testing new strategies for change.
The Human Genome Project was started in 1989 with the goal of sequencing, or identifying, all three billion chemical units in the human genetic instruction set, finding the genetic roots of disease and then developing treatments.
Used since 1979 and applied to the seafood industry since 1997, it focuses on determining which hazards are likely to affect a given commodity or product and then developing "safety assurance programs targeted to the specific steps that must be controlled to safeguard consumers".
"When we first determined and believed that Mr. Giordano may have been having inappropriate sex," Mr. Wolf said, "all of the appropriate agencies were notified and performed admirably, first ensuring the safety of the children and then developing the probable cause to charge him today".
