Companies are finding that they need to be innovative just to keep their core businesses relevant.
Putting the focus on transforming our actual core businesses, not just on pending, new, unrelated businesses.
However, the dual threats of Microsoft and Intel in its core businesses is a concern.
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On Tuesday, Cisco announced a restructuring plan that will return it to its core businesses.
The group is either the leader or a strong No. 2 in these core businesses.
His brief is to restructure this ragbag of stakes to free capital for Allianz's core businesses.
It has decided to divest its office and consumer products unit and focus on its core businesses.
The bank has been trying to turn its business around by cutting costs and shedding non-core businesses.
When core businesses that you understand well are growing 10-15% a year, new markets can lack allure.
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Interestingly, of those only seven come from executive positions directly managing core businesses at Fortune 500 corporations.
These companies got interested in consultancy partly because the profit margins in their core businesses were shrinking.
Deutsche Bank has a clear growth strategy that is based on developing all of its core businesses.
Key to Act II's focus-and-growth strategy is the idea that Veba's core businesses should be globalized wherever possible.
This transaction is aligned with our long-term strategy of expanding our core businesses through organic growth and acquisitions.
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After Warburg died in 1982, his bank embarked on ill-judged expansions while becoming complacent in its core businesses.
Operating profits rose at Brambles' other core businesses - the waste management business Cleanaway and security division Recall.
The mining group has said that it wants to focus on core businesses such as iron ore and coal.
When companies start investing shareholder cash in projects far outside their core businesses, it raises serious questions about focus.
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Both companies were relatively early in their efforts to restructure their core businesses.
Japanese companies are beginning to concentrate on core businesses and to exit others.
The earnings of all the bank's core businesses derive overwhelmingly from transactions in which it acts on behalf of clients.
Anticipating the slowdown in growth in the U.S. and western Europe, 3M is aggressively transitioning core businesses to higher growth emerging markets.
But they are similar when it comes to their non-core businesses, businesses they have forayed into in order to drive their core businesses.
Google.org wants competition for ideas and projects, and like Google's core businesses, plans to make future moves based on feedback from earlier investments.
Even the high selling prices are a bit misleading, since many owners could get higher returns investing that money in their core businesses.
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Overall staff costs are more than 40% of gross traffic compared with about 15% in China, where the railways have shed non-core businesses.
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But it's good that companies are looking at what is core and what is non-core - and are cutting out the non-core businesses.
Both the banks reported earnings growth, but the results suggested their core businesses and net interest margins were under pressure from low interest rates.
Teams from our core businesses are working together, sharing experiences, and providing complementary skill sets to create new opportunities and better serve our customers.
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Firms of every description sought to squeeze out inefficiencies, sell off non-core businesses and close redundant operations, all in the name of shareholder value.
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