This often results in
hard dollar costs (stemming from replacing smaller servers with larger ones or on clustering the existing servers) and soft dollar costs in the form of a loss in employee productivity.
While there may be savings from these techniques, they are more likely "avoided costs" and thus aren't the
hard dollars you can put in the bank.
The payback, Boggs said, comes both in
hard dollars, and in soft.
By plugging those figures into the operational model, the manager can show the heretofore "soft" cost effects on the call center in
hard dollars.
Lots of incumbents--Democrats and Republicans alike--secretly like this devil's bargain, because they think it would make it easier to raise the
hard dollars they so desperately need for their campaigns.
In a narrow, technical sense, neither Lazio nor Backus was wrong in saying that collecting
hard dollars is consistent with the law; nor are they wrong in arguing that huge hard-money fundraising would be acceptable under the McCain-Feingold version of reform.
2) If soft dollars were not available to purchase research, the money management firm would have to spend
hard dollars to get the information needed.
"Andrew has looked at the return on investment and sees two areas of benefit in terms of
hard dollars in expense reduction," says Edward Nield, vice president of MIS at Andrew.
He explains the biggest capital investment in a retail store is not the
hard dollars paid out; it's the lease commitment--in most cases a 10-year obligation.