A small margin decline in the managed business (-20bp) was offset by cost efficiencies elsewhere.
"As a Service" models are proliferating, driven by cost efficiencies, increased feature functionality and new ways of creating and deploying IT services.
This chapter argues that technological innovations in the field of ICT are driven by cost-efficiency but also by the necessity of providing an IT-based assistance for increasingly complex decision-making processes.
It argues that the spread of "autonomous computer systems" is driven by cost-efficiency but also by the necessity of providing an IT-based assistance for increasingly complex decision-making processes – increasingly in the middle class3 environment.
Driven by cost-efficiency and the increasing inability of humans to take into account a large number of complexly linked facts and parameters in decision-making, computers would be used in ever more areas to make independent decisions that have direct or indirect consequences for humans.
Driven by cost-efficiency and but also by the necessity of providing an IT-based assistance for increasingly complex decision-making processes, the possible development paths depend on the degree of autonomy of computer systems and the extent to which humans lose or keep control over these systems.
Best Buys are ranked by their cost efficiency and five-year risk-adjusted return (investment gains adjusted for portfolio volatility).
Several policy options for the control of nitrate pollution are evaluated by their cost efficiency.
Mammalian cell culture titers and cell densities have been increasing over the years driven by product demand, cost efficiency targets, and production facility constraints.
By assessing the cost efficiency of the GCEP, this study aimed to provide empirical evidence on the cost structure and mechanisms underlying cost generation in conducting GC surveillance, thus informing resource allocation and programme budgeting for the Singapore government.
