He scrapped top management, merged all purchasing operations into Cemex's central system, replaced old-fashioned ledger and handwritten accounting systems with computers and linked the operations via satellite and telephone lines to Mexico.

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The reviews will look at the central bank's emergency-lending operations in 2008-09, its inflation-forecasting record and the system for providing money to banks.

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Instead, Target has a central system where all data is analyzed and pushed back out to support day-to-day operations, mining purchasing data, tying it to specific individuals and using algorithms to predict future outcomes.

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