The NPS managers are very senior Marketing Heads in the Business, so they are empowered to make radical changes when needed.

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"With Office 365 included in Verizon Wireless Small Business Essentials, companies are empowered to be more mobile, more productive and more secure, " said Kirk Gregersen, general manager, Microsoft Office Division.

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Cloud computing empowered the line of business manager to go around the command-and-control CIO.

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Alkhaled notes that, although many of the entrepreneurs she had interviewed felt "empowered" by their business experience, and were motivated by a desire for gradual social change, they expressed respect for their society's traditions.

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Think of it as empowered leadership, dispersed to resident experts across the business.

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The telegraph and the telephone, followed by the airplane and radio, empowered corporations to vault national boundaries, conduct their business globally--and shift their wealth to the least onerous tax system.

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These applications are deeply connected across the ecosystem to bring together a complete and contextual set of information to the user to enable them to make empowered decisions, and can be delivered from the most suitable location for the business, whether that be traditional on-premises, hosted in a partner or delivered through a cloud service.

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