"Like other software companies, we have experienced unanticipated delays with a number of enterprise orders for a variety of reasons, including the shifting of customer budgets and spending to year 2000 and other issues," says Becker.
Insurers may never charge those worst-case premiums, but quoting them lets the company set aside smaller reserves and shift to customers the risk of paying more if its claims and other expenses increase.
Like many other giants of the technology industry, Facebook is struggling with the seismic shift of its customers away from computers to mobile devices and the erosion of profit that can bring.
By using their interpersonal skills -- and the power of their office -- to focus their time and energy on the people who matter (a shifting array of customers, key employees, the media, or others, depending on the company's needs).
An economic model for the demand response which can explain the change and cross-period shift in consumption pattern of customers is proposed in [25].
He insisted adequate preparations had been made for the closure of the overseas centres and other factors may have caught the Passport Office out, such as a "significant shift in the seasonality of customers' behaviour".
But as millions of customers shift to cellphones or cable- and Internet-based voice services, the PUC presides over a rapidly shrinking universe.
Another key to their success - TransferWise has shifted more than £3bn of customers' money since 2011 - is the simplicity of design, he says.
Barnes & Noble's e-book foray represents an attempt to take its own share of the wave of customers shifting from brick-and-mortar stores to digital reading.
For millions of customers, the shift in price might change the daily calculus of an entertainment diet made up of a myriad of choices: cable television packages, online streams, Redbox rentals and iTunes downloads.
We consider the multi-trip vehicle routing problem, in which each vehicle can perform several routes during the same working shift to serve a set of customers.
