The functional separation of the vertically integrated utility into smaller, individually owned business units (i e , generation, dispatch/control, transmission, distribution) The terms "deintegration," "disintegration" and "delamination" are sometimes used to mean the same thing (See also "Divestiture ")
Allows companies to separate the means (product) from the ends (customer needs) identifying, valuing and nurturing the true core of a business Managers disassemble old structures, rethink core capabilities and identify what new forms of value can be created
In geographically licensed services, the acquisition of a part of a licensee's allotted spectrum by another entity For example, a PCS licensee with 30 MHz of spectrum could disaggregate 10 MHz to another entity (see Assignment and Partitioning)
This does not usually refer to "undoing" the process of aggregating two or more indicators together into an index Rather, it refers to breaking down a single indicator into subgroups of geographic or demographic variables For example, instead of simply stating that 15% of people in your city live in poverty, you might break down the population by age, ethnicity or neighborhood of residence
Functional separation of the 'vertically-integrated' utility into smaller, individually owned business units (i e , generation, transmission, and distribution) Refer to divestiture
The process by which a group of soil particles, formerly behaving mechanically as a unit, are broken down into discrete particles
The ability to represent the behaviour of an aggregated unit in terms of its component entities If the aggregate representation did not maintain state representations of the individual entities, then the decomposition into the entities can only be notional