In previous years, the league presidents performed those duties, but the office of league president has been eradicated with the centralization of league functions in the commissioner's office.
Centralization of IRB function, as has been done with the National Cancer Institute's Central IRB Initiative, offer a potential solution, by coordinating and centralizing IRBs for large, multicenter studies.
"Between outsourcing, centralization of support staff functions, and near-paralysis of hiring, everyone ends up doing what used to be someone else's job in addition to his own.
Such centralization of related brain functions is an economical design that avoids the repetition of similar circuit motifs.
Centralization of similar brain functions spares the cost of maintaining similar circuit motifs in different brain areas and may be an evolutionary conserved design of information processing.
This can only be achieved through centralization of the procedure.
Using RoF for wireless systems enables the centralization of the wireless signal processing functions that are currently performed by each AP.
The brewer implemented a series of cost-cutting measures, including the restructuring and centralization of marketing and sales support functions in Australia along with overhead reductions in the Americas and other foreign markets.
This includes My Macy's localization of merchandise assortments, centralization of key Macy's organizational functions, continued development of private brands, introduction of new exclusive market brands, the integration of stores and online channels at Macy's and Bloomingdale's, as well as other factors.
These mainly involve creation of a series of new national agencies designed to stimulate national coordination and centralization of some planning and service delivery functions along with performance improvements in specific areas, namely quality, information technology, service efficiency, reduction of administrative costs, and comparative-effectiveness research.
New Zealand, an NPM index case, abandoned its quasi-market structure [ 31] after it failed to tackle cross-government problems, notably in the areas of health and pediatric wellbeing [ 32], and has moved toward national coordination and centralization of some planning and service delivery functions [ 33].
