In their 2006 book, "Redefining Health Care," Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg described some of the shortcomings of the medical profession, which is divided into specialties and organizations, each very competitive and effective, but each confined within boundaries that are sometimes too narrow for a patient's best interests.
In today's competitive markets, effective product portfolio is critical for manufacturers that offer several products.
Synthetic materials appear to be particularly competitive and effective for the removal of heavy metals at trace level (Shawabkeh 1998).
For this proposal, process simulation tools are very useful to design a competitive and effective biorefinery scheme.
"In the bigger picture if there were more guys doing what I'm doing you'd have a much more competitive and effective manufacturing and corporate center," he says.
This may indicate the presence of competitive and effective indigenous rhizobia nodulating common bean. in this site, the highest PTTN were obtained from 40 kg N ha−1 alone and 20 kg N ha−1 applied with inoculation.
Rail in North America is not particularly competitive or effective at sector lengths of less than 500 miles and has abandoned or been driven out of sector length flows of this distance or less.
At Haramaya site, however, the highest TBY (6,474.1 kg ha−1) was obtained from 100 kg N ha−1 applied alone, indicating the presence of competitive and/or effective rhizobia in Haramaya soil.
Essentially, the CAP reform for the period 2014 2020 aims at making the European agricultural sector more dynamic, competitive, and effective in pursuing the objective of the EC Communication "The CAP towards 2020: meeting the food, natural resources and territorial challenges of the future" (European Commission, 2010).
"The scale drove us to look for more competitive, cost-effective products," Bakker says.
