"We will complete the necessary transformation and repositioning of the investment bank to a less capital-intensive model," he said.
In a memo to staff Mr Staley said he planned "to complete the necessary transformation and repositioning of the investment bank to a less capital-intensive model".
Now, they could have a capital-intensive model and build a desalination plant but they're not going to.
The marketplace funding model is also valuable, because it allows a single platform to serve more customers (wider range of risk tolerances among investors) and grow more quickly (less capital-intensive model), but, ultimately, the technology-enabled distribution and underwriting has been the predominant driving force.
The health care system in Iraq adopts a hospital-oriented and capital-intensive model that requires large-scale imports of medicines and medical equipment [ 3, 5].
The Iraqi health system has been historically based on a hospital-oriented, capital-intensive model that was increasingly depending on specialist doctors.
Many analysts believe that the current capital-intensive model- the one drug to fit all" approach will be unsustainable in future and that a new "less investmodel- the drugs" monel is necessary for further scientific growth.
Although in regions like India, Amazon has the less capital intensive marketplace model, in other international markets it is replicating the retailer model.
"Ultimately, it could lead to lower dealer inventory levels and could be ROE-enhancing as we adapt to a less capital intensive business model," he said.
Transitioning from a highly labour-intensive mobile, multiple-value production system toward a sedentary, capital intensive single-output development model may appear to achieve resource efficiencies for that particular output (usually meat), but this narrows the range of products delivered by the system at the expense of overall social and environmental health" (McGahey et al. 2014, 20).
