The firms reported a 70% cost savings from shifting operations to cloud computing, Ms. Kinton says.
One answer is the way in which German firms have learnt to deal with their country's rigidities: by shifting operations abroad.
Meatpacking companies have responded to international competition by shifting their operations from old industrial cities, with their heavily unionised workforces and restrictive practices, to rural areas and small towns.
According to one of the affected contractors, these restrictions have delayed multiple deliveries of cargo destined for U.S. troops, including goods necessary for the construction of new camps to meet the needs of the shifting military operations.
When I was in Tulsa a few months ago, a fellow-surgeon explained how he had made up for lost revenue by shifting his operations for well-insured patients to a specialty hospital that he partially owned while keeping his poor and uninsured patients at a nonprofit hospital in town.
American troops are shifting from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces, and, eventually, to a protective overwatch mission.
In November, group managing director Philip Brass said some operations were shifting from Shenzhen to cheaper Tianjin, near Beijing.
By shifting focus from technology operations and maintenance towards innovation, organizations can reduce costs and remain competitive in a challenging economic market.
Despite making sales of hundreds of millions of pounds, they reported small profits or even losses in the UK after shifting their earnings to overseas operations.
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And the study group also recommends that the United States make a fundamental change in its military operations by gradually shifting its troops from combat missions to training and advising the Iraqi army.
Since the year began, says Charles Schwab, there has been evidence that some customers are shifting back from its discount-broking operations to its fund supermarket.
Specifically, it means shifting responsibility for punishment from prisons, which in America are state or federal operations, to jails, which are run by counties and their elected sheriffs.
Indeed, Honda says it is shifting more responsibility for the introduction of global automobiles to its U.S. operations.
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Many companies are shifting call centres and other ancillary divisions to India to save money, but a shift of core operations is more rare.
Sungevity, the California solar installer, said Thursday that it is expanding its operations to its native Australia, a market rich in sunshine but whipsawed by every-shifting subsidies for renewable energy.
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The answer has ramifications that affect customer-facing operations throughout a company: requiring a different blend of skills, greater levels of employee empowerment and shifting organizational structures as enterprises go social.
Qantas has been shifting its focus on increasing its share of the domestic market in a bid to offset the decline in its international operations.
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