Before Christmas, the Department of Health distanced itself from the idea of centralising bookings, saying there were "no plans" for a national call centre. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Meanwhile, some Muslim organisations and social workers in the city have been propagating the idea of centralising zakat collection and disbursement. ❋ Unknown (2010)
According to Rob Lovell, chief executive of business IT on demand provider ThinkGrid, end users have to become familiar with the idea of centralising their data in a location away from their office.
We must give up the idea of centralising, controlling, coordinating and planning in a conventional way. ❋ Unknown (2008)
(aka centralising ownership) they could increase profits. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Singh must have thought that he would please his political and ideological masters in the BJP and the RSS by balancing this view with an interpretation of Jawaharlal Nehru - whose inheritance the ruling Congress Party is enjoying today - as a powergrabbing 'centralising' force. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bundred made a veiled criticism of the department, saying it had a "centralising" view of the NHS and failed to understand the "autonomy proposed for hospitals". ❋ Unknown (2010)
Still not clear what the Church intends to do with the land in question and the rationale for "centralising" social services all in one location. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As Johann Hari in the Independent has documented, David Cameron et al continue to do the complete opposite of what they are saying ..their transparency, accountability and localism is actually opacity, undemocratic and centralising. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He conceded progress had been made in achieving efficiency savings, centralising procurement and moving towards sharing back-office functions. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Then, we transitioned to Kabul and focused, for a brief bit, on centralising our nation-building – to no avail. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The Port Authority aims to make its operations more efficient by centralising the administrative and technical services which are now divided between the Port House and quay 63. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This looks like a centralising not a de-centralising measure. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And if, as everyone seems to believe, the centralising deal is a political ploy by Michel Platini to shore up support among minor European nations ahead of a run for the presidency of Fifa, it seems a steep price for football to pay. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Attempts by previous governments to streamline procurement have had limited success, but the government's head of procurement, John Collington, is confident that centralising government procurement for goods and services ranging from paper clips to consultants can save more than £3bn a year by 2015. ❋ Unknown (2011)
SaaS code is lean and simple, lightening its processing load, and by centralising such processing in purpose-built data-centres creates efficiencies of scale in use of equipment and energy (see SaaStainability post Will going green sink your business?). ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is not a handout but a centralising measure which would have penalised local people for exercising the freedom to try and protect the services they rely on. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It was a story about funding for PhDs, and the suggestion coming from a lobbying group that government money should be concentrated in the most research-intensive universities (the rich get richer, the poor get poorer vs. the benefits of centralising resources, in other words). ❋ Unknown (2010)
