Uniformity is more difficult in large, geographically dispersed operations — particularly those required for blood safety.
Johansson soon recognized the need for an overall strategy to coordinate and integrate his dispersed operations.
In addition, a number of foreign governments offer tax relief and other incentives, and many companies are dispersing operations to avoid disruptions from a terrorist attack or other disaster.
Iiguez began by hooking up Cemex's geographically dispersed operations via satellite — an unusual move, to say the least, for a then-modest Mexican cement company.
Pastoral farming style and production techniques vary widely within the depositional area of the ash fall, from small, dispersed operations in parklands of Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi (Nahuel Huapi National Park), to extensive production on the arid steppe (Jacobacci and Comallo areas).
The decision has nothing to do with downtown incentives, real estate brokers said, but rather with decisions to disperse their operations, rather than concentrating in one location, like Lower Manhattan.
UBS officials said that dispersing their operations around the metropolitan area had worked for them.
More and more companies recognize that their dispersed, global operations are a treasure trove of ideas and capabilities for innovation.
Companies are well aware that hidden in their dispersed, global operations is a treasure trove of ideas and capabilities for innovation.
They included centralizing some of the university's widely dispersed procurement operations (up to $45 million) and information technology functions (up to $19 million) and simplifying its organizational structure (up to $12 million).
Mr. Bijur told employees he was also considering making a smaller corporate center in Harrison and dispersing some operations -- like the oil trading group -- to other places around the world.
