Given these pressures, many companies choose or find it necessary to focus on core activities in which they have strong skills and a competitive advantage.
Andrew C. Weiss, a pharmaceuticals analyst at the Swiss private bank Julius Baer in Zurich, predicted that Monday's deals would raise Roche's operating profit by 0.4percentto0.5percentcent and help it focus on core activities.
Rising international cooperation, vertical disintegration, along with a focus on core activities have led to the notion that firms are links in a networked supply chain.
Primarily, outsourcing enables firms to focus on core activities and competencies, solve capacity issues, and achieve cost savings.
As Programme in Action focuses on core activities that have practical consequences and are essential to determine students' abilities, it deserves extensive attention.
Chief among them are the importance of swift and deep cost-cutting; of focusing scarce resources on core activities; and of convincing investors that your business strategy is a winner.Given that entrepreneurs tend to be tireless optimists, even experienced hands need a scare.
Larrouturou peppered his presentation with references to the Max Planck Gesellschaft, saying he admires the German agency's focus on the core activity of research.
At the same time, those proposals could leave NSF open to attack from a Republican-led Congress that has been pushing it to focus on core, disciplinary activities and that dislikes most of what the administration wants to do on energy and environmental policy.
Banks should focus on core banking activities.
