As French industry restructures to improve its global competitiveness, it has attracted billions of dollars in investment capital, much of it from American and British pension funds.
Rip Rapson, president and chief executive of the Kresge Foundation, called it a "rebirthing" of Detroit, and Toni L. Griffin, an urban planner based in New York who has been a leading consultant on Detroit's long-range plan, portrayed it as a "super-restructuring" to improve the quality of life.
Similarly, in the UK researchers have suggested that medical cover for nursing home residents could be restructured to give improved scope for proactive and preventive interventions [ 33].
Mr. Ballmer's departure comes after the company's recent announcement of a major restructuring intended to improve its nimbleness and reduce infighting between its powerful divisions.
Refactoring offers a means of restructuring software design to improve maintainability.
Following its recent US$1.1 billion Rockwood acquisition [ADPO, December 2014], Huntsman Corp has announced a comprehensive restructuring programme designed to improve the global competitiveness of its pigments and additives business.
The company took another step forward, it says, in that process Wednesday by announcing a restructuring plan "designed to improve operational efficiencies and performance across its lines of business".
(Patient 9) Most patients selected behavioural activation as their preferred intervention (the other options were cognitive restructuring and ways to improve physical problems such as sleeping, irritability and concentration – see Table 5).
There has also been a round of actual and attempted mergers and alliances, and a wave of restructuring, in a bid to improve efficiency.
The Frenchman said Smith's departure was "a tough decision" but said the restructure was needed to improve form.
