Like other providers, it contends this allows financial firms to focus on their core competencies.

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It has become increasingly fashionable in business to focus on your core competencies rather than diversify your efforts.

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Outsourcing PC manufacturing allows HP to focus on strategic core competencies, including supply chain design, new product and services development, supplier management and customer relationship management.

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Increased efficiency of operations allows investors and consultants to focus on their core competencies, and when funds provide the proper information to investors in a timely manner, investors make confident decisions, which ultimately lead to stronger relationships between fund, consultant and investor.

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You can leave the work of setting up racks and servers to the cloud providers, pay only when you need it, and instead focus engineering resources on core competencies.

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Opponents may say that a focus on behavioral skills will detract from the teaching of core competencies such as math and science.

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