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  • The Obama plan will suboptimize quality as it claims to improve it.

    Wonk Room » Rebutting AMA, Doctors Speak Out In Support Of A ‘Robust Public Option’ 2009

  • Local development establishments suboptimize by competing for growth with other jurisdictions and by subsidizing growth to inefficient, unsustainable levels.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 4 2008

  • Clearly, in a divisionalized firm, broad operating freedom creates the opportunity for divisions to suboptimize—to take actions that improve their own profitability at the expense of possible overall corporate gains.

    Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994

  • "We want partnerships with best-in-class suppliers, but we also don't want to suboptimize the full value of these suppliers 'competencies," Marcotuli says.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • The profit from the successful execution of the iPhone franchise strategy will dwarf any amount of profit that they could suboptimize if they focused on what was best for the iPhone application development community.

    MyAppleMenu 2009

  • The profit from the successful execution of the iPhone franchise strategy will dwarf any amount of profit that they could suboptimize if they focused on what was best for the iPhone application development community.

    MyAppleMenu 2009

  • And how do they know the improvements they make to the OE subprocess don't screw up a downstream subprocess and subsequently suboptimize the total order-to-cash process?

    unknown title 2009

  • And how do they know the improvements they make to the OE subprocess don't screw up a downstream subprocess and subsequently suboptimize the total order-to-cash process?

    unknown title 2009

  • And how do they know the improvements they make to the OE subprocess don't screw up a downstream subprocess and subsequently suboptimize the total order-to-cash process?

    unknown title 2009

  • The profit from the successful execution of the iPhone franchise strategy will dwarf any amount of profit that they could suboptimize if they focused on what was best for the iPhone application development community.

    MyAppleMenu 2009

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