• The way Ray Kroc did it with hamburgers: by systematizing a business that used to be fragmented, inefficient and undercapitalized.

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  • We do not want this common space to be fragmented or divided.

    ECONOMIST: America's imbalance

  • "Television programming is driving the social media conversation, but those conversations continue to be fragmented across myriad platforms and provide little local context, " said Alan Frank, President and CEO of Post-Newsweek Stations on behalf of Pearl.

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  • These give viewers control over what they watch and when they watch it, meaning that the mass television audience will be further fragmented.

    ECONOMIST: Star turn

  • Given its shaky financial condition, with its economy already mired in recession, that would be difficult enough for a government firmly in control of decisions, let alone a parliament expected to be severely fragmented between numerous political parties.

    FORBES: Slowing U.S. Economy Is Fine But Europe Can Do Real Damage

  • But assembling these dedicated tracks, which must be relatively straight and level, in densely populated corridors where land holdings are fragmented would be extremely costly, if not impossible.

    WSJ: Which Gets Priority: High-Speed Rail or Intercity Passenger Service?

  • The Pope's legacy to his successor "may prove to be weaker and more fragmented, rather than 'purified' or modernised", Le Bars writes.

    BBC: Pope Benedict resigns: European media stunned

  • These players rapidly realised that no single operator or manufacturer's standard could be successful in a fragmented market such as Europe or indeed the world.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • The Arab royal-family-owned network will be entering a tumultuous, fragmented marketplace for news programming where the top-ranked cable news shows garner ratings only in the hundreds of thousands at any one time, not millions, analysts said.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The technology ecosystem is already fragmented and likely to be made worse before it gets better.

    FORBES: The ISIS Mobile Wallet: Are Visa, MasterCard and PayPal Under Siege?

  • Instead, McAllen and other cities like it have to be weaned away from their untenably fragmented, quantity-driven systems of health care, step by step.

    NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum

  • Sysco is making the right moves by cutting costs and seeking operating efficiencies, and appears to be claiming additional share in a fragmented foodservice market.

    FORBES: Rising Food Costs Could Threaten Sysco's Rebound

  • Passing more measures -- essential if Greece is to continue receiving money under a bailout deal from the European Union and International Monetary Fund -- is likely to be more difficult in a strongly fragmented parliament, especially as many of the smaller parties that are likely to enter the legislature oppose the bailout.

    CNN: Greek prime minister calls snap election

  • By connecting stakeholders and pulling together a fragmented system of care, I would be a catalyst for collective impact within the child welfare system.

    WHITEHOUSE: Fostering Change

  • And while there's perhaps something to be said for that sentiment in the sometimes-fragmented world of Android devices, it was hard to ignore the fact that offering up exclusive access to content through your own marketplace assures better cash flow.

    ENGADGET

  • Big markets, particularly America's, remain hopelessly fragmented, with little sign that they can be quickly and profitably consolidated.

    ECONOMIST: The steel industry

  • In 1998, the NHS's fragmented efforts to fight what was feared to be rampant fraud were pulled together into a single organisation.

    BBC: Hitting back at healthcare graft

  • My prediction would be that we will see a return to a more fragmented world in which many diverse non-systemic institutions can operate more comfortably and take on the degree of risk they feel happy with.

    FORBES: Get Briefed: Thomas Cooley

  • The people who are going to be part of the collective, as opposed to the fragmented, market are the people who are using open protocols and who are designing not just interoperability, but making it possible to partition and provision how clients and servers connect and cooperate.

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  • The system we have now promotes fragmented care and makes it more difficult than it should be to assess outcomes and patient satisfaction.

    WSJ: Jeffrey S. Flier: Health 'Reform' Gets a Failing Grade

  • With the opposition parties fragmented and scattered, however, the PT may well be in power long enough to be held accountable to its plans.

    CNN: Is Brazil ready to take sporting center stage?

  • We found that the NRA and the pro-gun rights voices are winning the influence battle and will continue to be strong and more influential if the pro gun control voice remains fragmented.

    FORBES: NRA Winning the Influence Battle Over Gun Control

  • The solution to the fragmented audiences and plethora of technology that plague marketers can be tackled with an age-old process that many have become too busy to notice: a good story told by genuine people.

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  • There are many reasons why private investors might be deterred from an impoverished African country: corruption, insecure property rights, fragmented markets, lousy infrastructure.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Significantly, a large number of French banks will be supervised by the ECB but rather few institutions in Germany will, because of its fragmented banking industry, says the BBC's Business Editor, Robert Peston.

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  • The priority must be to have a can-do attitude and a national culture of safety instead of the fragmented industry where every company is able to interpret its own safety system.

    BBC: 'Prescott U-turns again'

  • Erkki Liikanen, the European Commissioner overseeing the move, had told MEPs fragmented information available on the internet not only discriminated against non-English speakers but could also be piecemeal and unreliable.

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  • Robert Black is calling for a "safe space" in which these conversations can be carried out, providing energy and drive to the necessary reforms, observing that debate in Scotland is now fragmented across numerous conferences and seminars.

    BBC: Bark and bite from the public��s watchdog

  • It remains highly fragmented, under-capitalised, labour intensive and predominantly low-skilled: not the ideal position to be in as the business heads south.

    ECONOMIST: Restaurants

  • But China is likely to be cautious in granting Cathay additional flights given opposition from home carriers including Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines as the fragmented Chinese airline industry consolidates.

    CNN: Cathay Pacific returns to China

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