What helped them initially grow becomes locked-in by behavioral norms, structural decision-making processes and a cost structure that may be tweaked, but rarely changed.

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As part of its mid-term strategic initiatives announced in April 2012, Sony identified resource optimization as one of the key initiatives for transforming its electronics business and Sony has since been progressively implementing various structural reform measures to optimize costs, streamline its overall organization, accelerate decision-making processes and establish firm foundations for sustainable future growth.

ENGADGET: Sony restructuring in Japan: camera lens plant to close with loss of 2,000 jobs

Microsoft's lawyers are working hard to get Judge Jackson's decision reversed--and they'll fight fiercely against any structural remedies.

CNN: Gates gets slammed

"In the current structural deficit we're in, I don't feel entirely comfortable with the decision, but I would support, if I had to, the closure of both schools, " he said.

BBC: Meeting to save threatened school

As I explained at the time, that one decision almost took the government back to square one when it came to cutting the structural deficit.

BBC: Hard times for Mr Osborne

Mr Osborne made his big fiscal decision in 2010, when he announced a rapid timetable for eliminating Britain's large structural deficit.

ECONOMIST: Britain's budget