Cost management, on the other hand, is proactive in nature, and tracks anticipated cost from conception to construction, with adjustments along the way, to change the budget when necessary, or change the design when constrained by budget; and utilizes the discipline of value management to make good decisions in the best interest of all stakeholders.
Collectively, these results are evidence that proactive environmental management can reduce environmental costs and thus, lends support for adopting an environmental cost management system.
Direct medical costs were calculated as the sum of treatment costs (based on data from PROactive), patient management costs and the cost of complications.
Total direct medical costs were estimated as the sum of pharmacy costs based on resource use from PROactive, patient management costs (screening for retinopathy, nephropathy and foot ulcers), and the costs of all diabetes-related complications captured in the analysis.
He told staff: "Since we do not control the global economy, interest rates or oil prices we must focus on what we can control, which is primarily our costs and the proactive management of our credit quality and related charges.
This study evaluated the efficacy of a fire department proactive risk management program aimed at reducing firefighter injuries and their associated costs.
These at-risk streams represent priority targets for proactive monitoring, management, and conservation efforts to avoid future degradation and expensive restoration costs.
In the present work, an online fault prognosis strategy is developed for proactive abnormality management.
Current methods are deficient in aiding proactive engineering management decision making and elucidating broader sustainability opportunities within manufacturing systems, often resulting in reactive decisions to circumvent fines, resource costs, or simply poor public perception.
