The second was to exploit information technology to identify the needy and make sure resources reached them.
Based on interviews with business-minded doctors, a medical practice can become a cost-efficient machine if managers control human resource expenses, spread out fixed costs as much as possible, exploit information technology and carefully track business metrics.
Libraries were involved early in exploiting information technologies.
Fifthly, the challenge of exploiting information and communication technology (ICT) tools was mentioned in four policy documents (documents a, b, c, and e).
Singapore has displaced the United States as the country best positioned to exploit information and communication technologies, according to the World Economic Forum.
This is compounded in the so-called Smart Cities, where the objective of the IoT is to exploit information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support added-value services for citizens, giving companies more opportunities to innovate through the use of the latest technologies.
They aim to identify the winners in emerging technologies such as bio-computing, miniaturisation and robotics, and in technologies exploiting information from the completion of the human genome project.
Today, dynamic fleet management exploits information provided by communication technologies (mobile and satellite) in order to improve the real-time use of transport resources [2].
But, as David Owen of Jefferies International, has noted, both countries were in a position to exploit the rapid growth in information technology.
Since the mid-1990s, when America improved its performance by exploiting the leap forward in information technology, the hope has been that Britain would follow suit, closing the productivity gap with many of its peers (see article).
