Much of this was achieved through acquisitions and a parsimonious attitude to costs, and in 1998 Thompson was branded with a less flattering title - 'the meanest boss in Britain' - after it emerged that 10,000 staff would need pay rises to reach the newly introduced minimum wage.
Companies like Schneider Electric have built practices across multiple verticals, and this breadth is often achieved through strategic acquisition (market consolidation).
Movile's teams successfully opened offices in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela, which they achieved through the acquisition of another mobile company with a similar business model, CycleLogic.
Too many of us are caught up in the illusion that our personal happiness and success in life will be achieved through the acquisition and accumulation of monetary wealth and possessions.
As for growth: CatchMark is trying to achieve that through acquisitions.
This improvement in accuracy with a surface coil was achieved through thin slice acquisitions with high spatial resolution parameters and by obtaining images as true axial scans of the tumour itself, rather than of the pelvis as a whole.
The interface with the Cloud service for resource acquisition is achieved through a so-called Vendor Module that is discussed in what follows.
Nevertheless, on one hand, data have been fully anonymized and their validation has been achieved through strict protocols concerning data acquisition and, on the other hand, federation of databases is not a requested option in the type of projects which we are dealing with.
Data acquisition between the PC and the signal acquisition module is achieved through LabVIEW, and the signal processing is carried out using MATLAB.
What's also interesting about the way the company and its product has grown is how this appears to have been partially achieved through a clever strategy of acquisitions.
I'm told that the company is targeting 50,000 members by the middle of next year and that this will be partly achieved through "a number of competitor acquisitions" over the next few months, with the aim to achieve clear market leadership.
