The four major types of responsibility centers are cost (or expense) centers, revenue centers, profit centers, and investment centers.

成本中心的经理们应对成本和生产产品所投入的数量负责。

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After a few years, these data centers were consuming thousands of servers and storage systems at significant expense.

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Improve operational efficiencies, expense control and service through investments in technology and more productive use of existing resources and lower-cost operations centers.

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