But direct measurement is the key to tightening operations.
However, he said that startups would need to tighten operations and slow their spending to attract the larger suitors.
The changes in job categories appear to reflect an emphasis on tightening operations and justifying past technology investments, rather than staffing up in anticipation of new business.
Nordstrom selected top management from outside the Nordstrom family for the first time in 1993, a move that signaled a new focus on cutting costs and tightening operations but which hurt company morale.
Many of those distributors have either disappeared or severely tightened their operations, including Warner Independent Pictures, Picturehouse, New Line Cinema, Miramax, the Weinstein Company, Paramount Classics and its successor, Paramount Vantage.
For instance, he said, the district had made several teaching changes and tightened fiscal operations, and has begun to look at revising the curriculum.
Mr. Baronette, a laborer, was caught in a huge traffic jam caused by police checks of each truck and van crossing the Manhattan Bridge, one very visible component of the city's tightened security operations, the most stringent undertaken since the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
Although the company seems to have tightened its operations, analysts agree that nothing really matters if it doesn't get the product right and how well its fall and winter lines go over remains to be seen.
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