New bosses need to rearrange their senior teams quickly, to put allies into key positions and remove potential troublemakers (such as rivals who have been passed over or stick-in-the-muds who have outlived their usefulness).
Hence, a key objective for mobile operators is to rebalance their tariffs to remove an arbitrage opportunity: to move to integrated tariffs and cut out this risk.
This quarter she made changes to remove bureaucracy, and created a system where employees are all aware of their key objectives and goals during a quarter.
One of his first moves in office was to persuade his European Union peers to remove a clause from the now-frozen Lisbon treaty stating that competition was a key EU objective.
On 29 February 2012 during Wales Office questions Mr Llwyd said that green technology was a "key industry" in Wales and that businesses would be deterred from investing if "Whitehall can remove funding with the flick of the pen".