P. was a centralized organization, run from New York according to highly formalized operating procedures.

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The bitter irony of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of GOTV efforts in favor of a centralized, faceless organization in a far off place (in this case, their Boston headquarters).

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Putting the bulk of computing and storage in the data center has other perks for IT management: It creates a centralized location for software upgrades across an entire organization and puts a layer of network security between users and sensitive data--a lost thin client laptop, for instance, doesn't contain private information, and so doesn't pose a threat of causing a data breach.

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It is doubtful that any organization will ever get to a truly centralized information management infrastructure.

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Only with real time measurement, and a centralized prospect and customer master, can a self-correcting, balanced sales execution system be created in an organization.

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