Another reason for the new enthusiasm is the growing awareness of the advantages of scale.
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By creating the UK's second-largest home broadband provider, the acquisition will deliver further advantages of scale for Sky's home communications business.
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But the biggest winners will be companies that can combine the advantages of scale with the agility to respond to fast-changing market conditions.
Pay attention to the resources on which you rely, invest to gain advantages of scale, operate with a tight focus on your goals and you should succeed.
They have failed to integrate their enlarged operations enough to take full advantages of economies of scale and of scope.
With global demand recovering and increasing chemical demand from emerging markets such as China, we expect that additional capacity expansions and economies of scale advantages should lead to market share and EBITDA margin growth for this division.
To better avail itself of many modern advantages, agriculture needs scale, and that means consolidation of plots through freedom to buy and sell land.
Several large-scale botnet takedowns showcase the advantages of working groups and task forces.
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As the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been examining the question, the debate in Israel has tended to juxtapose the energy security advantages of maintaining a large strategic natural gas reserve against the economic and other benefits of export, which requires scale to justify the considerable capital expenditures to build the required infrastructure.
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Foxconn's cost advantages from scale have waned as it works to improve factory conditions after a spate of high-profile worker suicides and accidents in recent years.
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When used to process unclassified information, sharing cloud computing resources can nominally provide the operational advantages of a private cloud with a cost closer to that of a public cloud due to the expected economies of scale from combined user communities.
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