1.   Ask also set up a new distribution business unit which will integrate its worldwide direct sales operations.

2.   Business units will then have wide discretion concerning how they structure themselves and operate to obtain the desired results.

3.   It follows restructuring last year which created business units to run departments.

4.   It was a heroic effort to try to evaluate business units using some notion of Market valuation.

5.   One way is by bringing about a once-and-for-all transformation in the structure and strategy of a business unit.

6.   The company said it will combine its international commercial-industrial operations with its domestic commercial-industrial business unit.

7.   The extent of the input by the business units themselves depends on the style of planning management adopted by the planning department.

8.   The major factor leading to the growth of large business units is therefore modern technology.