Today, the notion of eCommerce being an entirely separate function is antithetical to most organizations.

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Edward Jones became so overloaded with seminar business that it recently set up a separate in-house function to coordinate them.

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Which ever department was considering a policy change would carve out a group of 20 to 200 drivers, make them function as a separate business and test the results.

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Specter, to make the operations function the responsibility of a separate intelligence agency.

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The exchange's regulatory function would be spun out as a separate, non-profit, private entity with its own management and board.

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At Pragma, we separate the decision of timing and routing orders from the brokerage function.

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