The former will take time to scale to make a huge difference day-to-day, and the latter is clearly the most speculative (a subject for another day).
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Second, we need to take programs that work to scale and increase investments in girls.
They not only help fill the capital void but also often give startups access to the business expertise in manufacturing and distribution to take a small company to scale.
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We have assessed what it would take for ICA to scale its operations so that we can significantly increase job and wealth creation in the inner city.
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Mr Marchionne admits that it needs another partner to create a global carmaker with the scale to take on VW. In recent weeks speculation has centred on a marriage with Peugeot.
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And busy doctors may resort to the scale rather than take the time to use a tape measure correctly, Michos says.
And there could be retailing of equity stakes - that is, aimed at the small-scale investor wanting to take a punt on a small-scale company with a big idea.
As the CIO, I understood how to leverage scale and take advantage of shared services models to drive down costs and improve services levels.
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As time progresses and as an industrial process is developed that enables the company to take advantage of economies of scale, this outlay is likely to fall, says Janin.
But the venture world has learned some hard lessons on the difficulty of building energy businesses: they face science risk, often take a long time to scale and can be capital intensive.
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Even then it is content to take a few more years to make a technology scale.
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Even when engaging anchor customer decision-makers, most small businesses lack the resources to deliver at the scale and schedule required to take full advantage of what can be a one-time opportunity.
We need to work across agencies to take advantage of our scale.
Renewable energy remains too expensive, too land-hungry, too unreliable and too small-scale to take up much slack, so cheap coal and newly abundant natural gas will do the job.
The majors are the only companies with the scale to take on such projects, but they are also the only companies in which size obliges them to do so.
Individual preparedness, and the realisation that large scale efforts take time to execute, must be the order of the day.
The fees are particularly essential for credit unions: far smaller than banks, they cannot take advantage of economies of scale to reduce the cost of servicing their customers.
Those overruns are partly to blame for leaving Mars exploration short of the multibillion-dollar commitment needed for another "flagship" mission of the scale it would take to fetch rocks and soil from the Red Planet and bring them home.
This is an opportunity to take a journey that will allow you to make an impact on a massive scale.
We are facing a once in a century opportunity to scale our impact and take teacher effectiveness to new heights.
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They have failed to integrate their enlarged operations enough to take full advantages of economies of scale and of scope.
The structure allows Apple to minimize risk and take advantage of scale by having most of its foreign earnings held by one entity.
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However, the coalition has allowed small-scale cultivation trials to take place.
And with the programme of public sector spending cuts only beginning to take effect fewer of these large scale publicly funded projects will be built in the near future.
Not only did consumers enjoy the benefits of more options and greater competition, but the larger market also allowed businesses to take greater advantage of economies of scale, pushing prices down.
As fewer, more powerful and more complicated banks vie for business across the same landscape, their size will push them to make larger and larger loans to bigger and bigger borrowers to take advantage of their economies of scale.
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Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.
Their goal is to create small-scale and modular GTL systems both on- and offshore to take advantage of a wide range of gas resources that are by themselves too small for larger multibillion GTL plants.
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He completed his first, a half-scale replica of Noah's Ark, in 2004, and used it to take tourists on canal trips, before beginning work on a full-scale version in 2008.
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