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Look at Dell: over the years, the company had outsourced more and more of its manufacturing to a company in Taiwan — its returns increasing each time, as it focussed on higher-level activities like design and marketing — until in the end the Taiwanese firm started making its own computers for less money.
(Instead it focussed on the other members of its imagined demographic: Don, a 40-year-old bachelor; the Hucknall family of four; and Bob and Sarah, a DINKY (dual income, no kids yet) couple in their 30s.
The company shut down 36 high street shops in 2012 and another 12 in the first half of 2013, as it focussed on boosting online sales and distributing its products through supermarkets.
As long as it focussed on beheading prisoners of war and imposing its extreme version of Sharia law on subject populations, the threat that it posed seemed limited to anyone who wanted to smoke a cigarette, show her face in public, or worship his chosen god somewhere in the swath of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Another aspect of the process that influences the success is that while it focussed on ring fencing of the ambulance and its staff, it had in fact ring fenced the dispatch of the resources as well.
Mostly, though, it focussed on vocabulary.
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