Companies may choose a different objective, such as maximizing the firm's longevity.
Obviously, you can't directly connect every social action to a business objective, such as an in-store sale.
Start with a small objective, such as cutting one thing out of your eating plan, like red meat, for example.
Tax-loss harvesting aims to realize losses on individual stocks in conjunction with an investment objective such as index tracking.
But defense departments rarely have a single objective; along with maximizing damage to an enemy, there may be another objective, such as minimizing losses from attacks.
Only idiots talk of leaving "overnight", but only idiots make departure conditional on some unachievable objective, such as more European troops or an operational Afghan army or honesty in Kabul.
"If [a business is] able to map each risk to a strategic objective, such as a product launch, then [it can] link these things together," says James Alexander, a partner in enterprise risk services at Deloitte.
A workplace gets designed that looks good, looks like the one the CEO of the client firm just saw in a glossy magazine spread, or looks like it may accomplish some ill-defined objective, such as increasing collaboration.
Such sales are not condemned when made in furtherance of a legitimate commercial objective, such as the liquidation of excess, obsolete or perishable merchandise, or the need to meet a lawful, equally low price of a competitor.
Directed evolution (DE) is a powerful tool for optimizing an enzyme's properties toward a particular objective, such as broader substrate scope, greater thermostability, or increased kcat.
Various types of non-uniform activity distributions inside a pellet are modelled and optimised for the maximisation of an objective such as yield or selectivity.
