"One lesson," said Howard Anderson, senior managing director of YankeeTek Ventures, a technology investment firm, "was that the more centralized you are, the more vulnerable you are".
If everything is centralized, you live in a big city with public transport, or the campus is small, you won't really need a car.
While it's not a bank, it is centralized, so you loan to and borrow from it directly instead of through peers, alleviating you from negotiation.
So, if you can have centralized clearing and you have centralized reporting, you can have a very good market structure.
"From way back, the hallmark of freedom and liberty in the state was to keep things small and decentralized - the idea that the more you centralize, the less you have citizen involvement and caring on local issues.
As the name suggests, PeopleDoc lets you centralized all HR documents related to you in a single location.
And if it's centralized financial control you're after then why are you even involved with Bitcoin at all? (Well, presumably you might just be a currency trader trying to profit off Bitcoin price fluctuations, rather than a decentralized cryptocurrency ideologue. But still, they have a point).
The one in Iceland can only be used for discovery, and that is unfortunate, because if you have centralized databases in health care, you can provide so much better health care.
Hubs are centralized places where you can go to find the content pertaining to that given subject, spread out across a seamless series of horizontally scrolling views.
From that centralized control dashboard, you have complete visibility of your network and can easily manage the formerly time intensive and costly tasks of operating a multisite network such as monitoring multiple contracts, processing invoices and performing legal and procurement paperwork.
A former intelligence officer added, "When you kill the tip-fiddle, you kill centralized military planning.
