Forty-eight percent of companies have Windows end-to-end. That's a big number and if you're running Windows already, you're probably going to get some cost savings from standardization, ... You can't ignore switching costs such as moving data, training, additional support, management and on and on it all adds up and it makes TCO analysis that much more difficult.
Quotes about standardization (16 Quotes)
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Even though Sony helped bring about the digital revolution, the company has failed to adapt to it. The standardization required to manufacture consumer digital products undercut the value of Sony's branded products. For example, the Chinese and other low-labor-cost manufacturers, using the same computer chips, could make the same DVD players and digital TV sets as Sony for a fraction of the cost. The result was a commoditized rat race that became unprofitable for Sony. When it became clear that Sony had to revolutionize itself, ... from an analog culture to a digital culture.
For us, it's making sure the capabilities we have in each service are interchangeable, so, for instance, any service's medic can operate the same equipment. We don't want to have to learn new equipment when time is of the essence. Through joint training, standardization and combining and making efficiencies where we can, we can ensure top quality care anytime and anywhere.
We will be a valuable resource for PMI by providing sound knowledge and insight into project management stemming from our numerous local and global projects, ... Further standardization of our project management will bring extra benefit to our US customers and our customers around the globe.
Our community's understanding of the nature of transactional functions in a service-oriented system has improved considerably over the past few years, ... This new committee provides a very clear set of components for those functions. We are delighted to see the work brought into open standardization, which will help make its usefulness and connections to other methods obvious.
Why is there so much standardization in the industry There's a very simple answer for that -- Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Ultimately, there will be some standardization within communities, and it's not clear to consumers who will win in their areas.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
My belief is that standardization and control of OPES is better than the alternative.
I think some partnerships and investments are of huge benefit. They should hopefully lead to more standardization, an increased likelihood that products will work together better, and who knows, maybe even improved quality.
(Pedagogues) More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people
We are pleased with our results for the quarter and the year. We are confident our investments in the business and our ongoing efforts to drive leverage, automation and standardization across EDS will result in continued improvements in free cash flow and operating margins in 2006 and beyond.
True education makes for inequality the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.