The trend also reflects the broader industry imperative around "omni-channel" retailing, where merchants aim to provide customers with a seamless experience whether shopping online via desktop or mobile device or at a traditional retail store.
And if there were such an investment hiatus across the industry, the imperative of replacing obsolete and CO2-spewing generators would not be met.
Since the bid manager is responsible for submitting a completed, professional bid to the client, excellent knowledge of the industry is imperative.
Imagine that as an industry imperative instead of designing "for the dump" in a sad sack world of planned obsolescence.
In the financial industry, the imperative to minimize career risk produces herd behavior.
He says consolidation within the industry is an imperative and that it will provide "at least perceived security of oil supplies for China and India" and a greater pool of investment resources.
As I have said the entire time I've been CEO, scale is an imperative for the industry and consolidation is inevitable.
The sustainability criterion in the manufacturing industries is imperative, especially in the automobile industries.
But the festivals also serve the imperatives of the industry and, increasingly, the machinery of hoopla and trivia that we know and endure as the awards season.
But at the end of the day, the imperatives of the industry mean that the first modernizing prime minister in Angola will be seen by oil companies as an enemy, global warming legislation will be fought tooth and nail, and the U.S. and Alaska will need to lawyer very, very hard to collect the debts that Exxon-Mobil owes them.
Terry Edwards, head of the Forest Industries Association of Tasmania, an employer body, says the deal was "absolutely imperative" in giving the industry certainty.
