That was the dilemma faced by Cisco, the battered networking giant, when it announced, on August 23rd, its most important management shake-up in four years, aimed mainly at centralising its engineering and marketing.The timing of the reorganisation might be right because the trough appears to be near.
Services for sick and premature babies could be centralised at at Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen - a move which has prompted protests at Haverfordwest's Withybush Hospital.
GETTING hitched has become terrifically unfashionable: the number of marriages taking place in England and Wales is almost at its lowest since centralised records began, and below the levels recorded in 1895.
TB diagnostic services are centralised at the Mycobacteriology laboratory at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen.
Earlier this month a special meeting of the health board agreed a series of proposals, including the closure of the special care baby unit at Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest, with care for newborn babies centralised at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.
The latter participants commented on the financial challenges when funding control was centralised at the state level as opposed to decentralised at the local state health district or rural community level.
The special care baby unit at Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest, will close, with care for newborn babies to be centralised at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.
Consultant-led obstetric services will continue at Bronglais, Glangwili and Withybush hospitals and paediatric high dependency care will be centralised at Glangwili.
Everything here was done by discretion, centralised at the top.
The fall in supermarket orders was compounded by difficulties at Thorntons' new centralised warehouse, which resulted in lost and late sales with missed promotional slots and reorders.
Services would be centralised at 10 other sites, it added.
