Since the 19th century the technology for doing so on an increasing scale has developed at a frightening rate.
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Increasing the scale of her business gave her the opportunity to hire more people.
Now the company has invested in increasing efficiency, decreasing the footprint and increasing the scale of the Watson system.
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It has what economists call increasing returns to scale and huge barriers to entry.
So being a first mover in something that has increasing returns to scale and is about information--those are very cool things.
The dynamics are a bit involved but in short export industries will tend to be folks who gain from increasing returns to scale.
Second, scientific advance tends to have increasing returns to scale: adding more scientists to a community does not diminish individual marginal productivity but tends to increase it.
Can you at that point deliver increasing economies of scale?
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The rapid growth from data-creation to data-consumption devices is increasing the ICT market scale and opening up new prospects.
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Both the continuing scale of the damage and the increasing sophistication of the launderers suggests governments need to do more.
From 2001-2006, Japan embraced large-scale stimulus, with its monetary base increasing by a mammoth 36% year-on-year at its peak.
Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan among others showed how to run big organizations by delivering mass production through managing the supply chain, parsing and manufacturing demand, controlling employees as human resources, and steadily increasing efficiency through economies of scale.
Does it have an increasing-returns-to-scale type dynamic involved?
One of the biggest impediments to increasing the percentage of renewable energy at scale is the present lack of grid capability.
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There are increasing signs that ministers are spooked by the sheer scale of the row over the Betsi Cadwaladr UHB plans to transfer new babies needing the highest level of treatment out of North Wales and to the Arrowe Park hospital on the Wirral.
John Kerry said Friday that he can't pay for all of the federal programs he's proposed by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, but instead will scale back federal agencies and eliminate corporate loopholes for additional money.
Incidents of data loss in both government and private companies are increasing as collaboration within and between organizations continue to grow in scale and complexity.
Social networks also get better as they scale, because you are diversifying the experience base of the network and increasing the likelihood that an individual prompt will spark a relevant response.
Considering the opportunities to treat gas that would otherwise be flared, to unlock otherwise uneconomic shale and conventional gas fields, and increasing opportunities for biomass, waste and coal conversion, small-scale GTL may well have a significant niche to fill in our emerging energy picture.
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Transformation is also difficult simply because the size and scale of the executive branch have grown so much over the past century, vastly increasing the odds that things can go wrong.
Intel was able to see off earlier pretenders to its throne by increasing the performance of its Pentium chips, and by exploiting its economies of scale as market leader.
The ten-person company is hoping to scale up both domestic and international operations quickly this year after raising another round of funding and increasing marketing efforts.
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Communications operators that manage petabyte scale today expect 10-100x data growth due to the shift to 4G and LTE with increasing endpoint devices connected to leverage thousands of mobile apps.
Mr Mitchell said the increasing numbers of people living in low-lying or famine-prone areas meant the scale of future tragedies would be greater.
The biggest highlight of the quarter was increasing importance of mobile, she says, and our unique ability to reach targeted audiences at scale.
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With global demand recovering and increasing chemical demand from emerging markets such as China, we expect that additional capacity expansions and economies of scale advantages should lead to market share and EBITDA margin growth for this division.
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