Sentence examples for fragmented operations from inspiring English sources

Some bank officials blame the continuing mergers and acquisitions within the industry, which often result in fragmented operations.

This is because the fund's approach is to apply the Celtel formula in other fields: identify inefficiencies, consolidate fragmented operations, go pan-continental and develop a respected brand.

As a result (and compounded by the fragmented operations and incomplete metrics described above), the goals, associated projects, programmes, and M&E often lacked relevance and meaning in the contexts where they were implemented (4).

But couldn't such a scheme easily lead to fragmented strategies and operations?

Sears and Kmart's financial plunge; the physical deterioration of their stores; the fragmented and "siloed" operations; strategically chaotic merchandising and marketing strategies and ad hoc implementation, all have contributed to the decimation of the consumers' perception of the brands.

We live in an age of fragmentation: fragmented communities, fragmented lives, fragmented attention.

"The F.B.I.'s approach to security policy has been as fragmented as the operation of its security programs," the panel said in recommending a variety of changes, including a major expansion of the use of lie-detector tests to ferret out other traitors among bureau employees.

The results in respect of farm fragmentation is not unexpected: evidence in literature (e.g. Blarel et al.,[1992]) have shown, among others, that cultivation of fragmented landholdings raises operation costs, leads to loss of time spent commuting between parcels, makes mechanisation (and therefore, deriving the associated economies of size) difficult.

Most farms are fragmented, without organized disposal operations, so energy companies need fleets of threshers and tractors to collect agro-waste from fields.

"Everything was done manually, and operations were fragmented," he says.

Compared with the U.S., the country's retail infrastructure is underdeveloped, dragged down by inefficient logistics operations and extremely fragmented shopping mall supplies.