Building on this flow of data, created as a by-product of effectively managing its monitoring business, Hanover now offers services that address its customers' ultimate higher-order needs: cost predictability and risk minimization.
The Critical Software Practices are intended to be used to implement effective high-leverage practices to improve bottom line measures: time to fielding, quality, cost, predictability, and customer satisfaction, to name a few, and they are used by Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Project Managers, sponsoring agencies, software Project Managers, and others involved in software engineering.
That is being replaced by 'Who Has the Expertise and Scalability?' Innovation means many things for legal buyers: required expertise, reduced cost, compressed delivery time, price predictability, risk mitigation, data accumulation --for a myriad of reasons including prophylactic and having the 'right' resources assigned.
I don't mind predictability.
Many investors want the low cost and predictability of an index fund with all the fun of taking a big bet on a sector.
The individualistic behavior of attorneys and the retrospective billing practices of the legal profession add up to an outright rejection of the cost-based predictability and accountability their clients crave.
Similar manipulations of variables including motivational state, reward value (e.g., regular versus palatable food), predictor cues, and the costs and/or predictability of obtaining rewards through different reinforcement schedules might be used to investigate the variables that determine changes in cortical excitability associated with food reward [ 24, 26, 31, 33, 34].
Determining the levels of clinically accepted bond strength and the best bracket system in terms of efficiency, cost, and bonding predictability have been and will continue to be of special interest.
Insurers say that caps not only promise lower costs, but greater predictability on potential payouts.
On the other hand, they would benefit greatly from the network effects of other SWFs' focus on reducing agency costs through transparency, predictability, and presence.
For example, an assembly line is highly interdependent and inflexible but generally promises lower costs and higher predictability than a loosely coupled line or batch-flow operation or a job shop.
