Just as buildings during the 20th century were specialised by function, towns were as well, says Mr Mitchell.
Its report, delivered three months ago, recommended splitting up the underground by function.
And as firms are increasingly organised by function, rather than by regional market, their senior staff are rewarded by what they do rather than where they do it.
Investigate trends within your company by function, manager, role or location, and then directly compare you practices with other business within your industry or against businesses across the entire country.
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Organizational structure may be an issue because companies that, like the automakers, have a strong central organization or that are organized by function tend to have rigid processes and emphasize efficient operations rather than innovation.
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Employees work in "neighborhoods" defined by job function, such as marketing or finance, so workers sit near those they interact with regularly in the course of a workday.
Many organizations try to earn back their return on investment in project management enterprise software by activating every function and feature a technology has to offer or by custom developing an elaborate solution.
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Exercise appears to exert similar effects on brain function by boosting insulin sensitivity and fighting inflammation.
The idea is this: Kalydeco works by improving the function of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator protein.
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Even the rich industrialised economies, taken as a group, by no means function as an integrated whole.
Medivation believes that dimebon helps brain cells work better by improving the function of cellular energy factories called mitochondria.
LEDs function by driving electrons across a junction between two semiconductor materials in which electrons move at different energy levels.
The Sohbet meetings fulfil an important educational function by transferring ethical values such as social justice, tolerance, benevolence and respect.
The real ones improved patients' lung function by 20%, compared with 7% for the alternatives: a dummy inhaler or acupuncture.
By using this function in combination with high-sensitivity shooting, camera shake and subject blur is effectively reduced, providing double image stabilization.
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This was all based on a simple insight: The behavior of the electron was dictated by the wave function rather than particle physics.
Edison bulbs function by making a Tungsten filament very hot, and a hot object glows: radiating energy on a broad spectrum of wavelengths, only a small part of which is visible to the eye.
Often, countries do not have the resources to set up a website so we are fufilling that function by allowing one person to to see what another person is doing in another part of the country.
Much as Coca-Cola's success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people )'s success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model which can be used by doctors and environmental specialists to quantify the effect of the pollutants on the lung function as measured by the peak expiratory flow rate-- which is essentially how much a person can breathe out in one breath.
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By eight weeks into the study, the acupuncture patients were showing a significant improvement in knee function, and by 14 weeks their pain levels had dropped sharply compared with the sham acupuncture and self-help groups.
Another thing thats going around is the idea that stress increases testosterone in both sexes by increasing the adrenal function.
Among the features supported by the Mission Control function are the use of the MINIMALISM Analyser included in MINI Connected.
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Would an internal audit function staffed by Colonial employees instead of an outside vendor have been sued under the same circumstances?
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The case also centred on the zoom function activated by touch.
"I support the principle of a single Welsh police service based on community policing... however, specialist police services should be organised regionally and supported by a single administrative function".
Software-defined networks will provide some of this flexibility by separating the control function from data forwarding, but there are additional capabilities emerging, he says, such as intelligent switching of wavelengths, the ability to mix dedicated bandwidth with best-efforts networks, and application layer network traffic optimization, e.g.
For the first time ever, Kyocera has implemented its proprietary voice-activated command feature into the DIGNO S, allowing the user to speak to the phone to activate e-mail, phone and other commonly used applications - a function accessible by simply tapping an icon on the lock screen.
Similarly, employees (sometimes limited by corporate title or function) may be permitted to charge personal expenses (limited to certain types of charges or dollar amounts) on a corporate credit card with the similar expectation that the charges will be highlighted on the next statement and promptly reimbursed.
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