Bob: Operations areas in many industries appear to have spent the last few years consolidating and focusing on cost containment issues.
"We need a lead ocean agency to take a new direction internally and to cooperate with other agencies to consolidate and focus programs".
While the position was initially found in media, education, and retail, an increasing number of industries of all types are considering the position to consolidate and focus its social and other digital activities.
The new organization will consolidate and focus end-user experience and services to provide the highest quality user-facing services and their associated enabling functions, and better meet the market demand of our user community.
There is a serious need to consolidate our focus to just a handful of projects.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, PEPFAR, and other donors have already begun to consolidate and focus their funding on certain priorities and are demanding greater counterpart participation.
Searching for an industry to consolidate, they focused on three possibilities: coin-op laundries, self-serve car washes and dry cleaners.
But it is the one-voter-at-a-time approach that makes it seem as if Mr. Franks is still trying to win new supporters while Mr. Corzine has decided to focus on consolidating the support he has.
The entrepreneur, whose other restaurant interests range from the Belgo bars to celebrity haunts such as the Ivy and Le Caprice, said Pizza Express would benefit from a spell as a private company, because "it could focus on consolidating its position".
Shiloh Industries, a supplier of automobile parts and processed steel to automakers, said yesterday that it was considering selling or consolidating three plants to focus on more profitable operations.
It goes on: "We have some of the most successful and innovative publicly-funded schools in the world and an internationally renowned independent sector... "This is meant to be a long-term strategy and while the Academies / Free Schools programme should focus on consolidating domestic progress over the next couple of year, we should look at export potential too.
