With such a large focus dedicated to maintenance, training and administration, the ability of IT managers to find the time and resources to invest in innovation, even process improvement initiatives will be hampered, if not completely derailed.
With the 17% decrease in manufacturing since 2007, a large public focus on austerity, a recession that rivals the Great Depression, and unemployment stuck at 9.5%, the only realistic position to take is that the future is now.
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Relying solely on economic approaches will be as unsuccessful as the focus on large dams and infrastructure during the 20th century.
Similarly, service providers and enterprise customers continue to focus on large virtualized data centers to deliver both private and public cloud computing.
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Small argues that this focus on large, spectacular species could have profound consequences for a wide variety of finely balanced ecosystems and food chains.
Clearwire is not building a nationwide system but will focus on large communities with population density where the bulk of the demand is centered.
Mr. McKeown along with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker founded Nicira to commercialize the technology with a focus on large commercial data centers like Rackspace.
"We focus on large funds and interesting funds, " Ms. Lallos says.
The company is focusing first on embedding the technology within selected portable electronic applications to gain early revenues, while continuing its development focus on large-scale storage applications.
While traditional energy companies focus on large wind farms of 100 megawatts and up, OwnEnergy focuses on thesmaller community wind market, with projects less than 100 megawatts.
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The computing giant has already weathered several quarters with surprisingly strong earnings, thanks in large part to its focus on services like managed data centers--which many customers are using so that they can replace expensive employees--and software as a service, which is seen as a thrifty alternative to traditional software.
Passenger Focus found a large difference in levels of overall customer satisfaction depending on the area in which people travel.
He noted that over the past half-century, the central organization of the Vatican had gotten too large, inefficient and lost focus on what is happening in local parishes.
But the Army's plea for the status quo ignores two key facts: Our domestic basing structure is larger than it should be, and we have more troops than we need in a world in which we will no longer focus on fighting large, boots-on-the-ground conflicts like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Focus on blue chip large-cap growth stocks in business areas that are easy to understand.
Skyline Solar has come up with a solar system that incorporates large amounts of reflective metal that focus the sun on high-efficiency silicon solar cells.
In large part because of that singular focus, the Orange, seeded fourth in the East Regional of the NCAA tournament, are headed to the Final Four for the fourth time since Boeheim became head coach in 1976.
In fact, the focus has been primarily on large organizations.
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Ms Llywelyn stressed that the plan was "an extremely large programme of work" and "maintaining focus" would be the biggest challenge for Local Health Boards.
There are certain aspects to the tourism here, I would focus on golf courses, where large quantities of water are used on the coast itself to keep golf courses in good order.
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Currencies have become more of a mainstream focus recently, largely due to the large down move in the Japanese yen.
We began shifting the focus of PE as game play and large team sports to individualized fitness and movement-based health goals.
By and large, manufacturers and carriers alike have shifted their focus away from keyboard-equipped smartphones, and you'll rarely find more than one option on any given carrier.
Using an eye tracker, she found that college-age people rotate the bottles, enabling them to see all the informational stickers that pharmacists attach, whereas older people focus on just the bottle's large white label.
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In earlier decades, when large shareholders weren't as prevalent, a simple focus on total insider buying and selling painted a more accurate picture.
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Large, half-used stadiums may be an uncertain focus for urban redevelopment.
In the coming Ohio primary seen as a must-win for Clinton the Buckeye State's large population of older, white Catholics is a strategic focus.
With the social expression and personal publishing markets still in the early stages, Shutterfly will focus on extending our leadership position in these large markets throughout 2011.
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Apart from helping along large individual projects, there is no doubt that the focus provided by a successful state visit also promotes greater general economic cooperation over the longer term.
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