Using a finance-driven business model, BP outsourced many of its corporate functions to contractors and eliminated many of its own engineers.

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This model recognises the close alignment of the functions carried out by the economic regulators and the competition authorities, which primarily relate to consumer protection and facilitating markets.

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That will be the most basic model, doing the computing and word processing tasks of today's PCs as well as such functions as accessing the Internet.

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