The complexity of these processes is magnified considerably for investment firms that trade internationally due to different practices, regulations, taxes, settlement cycles, etc.

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Given the complexity of our mental processes, the recipient tunes out, blocks, forgets, or misinterprets 80% of what's been said.

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Late in the afternoon on October 22, The World Bank published its 2013 Doing Business Report , a study that rates 185 economies according to 11 indicators relating to the strength of legal institutions relevant to business regulation and the complexity and cost of regulatory processes.

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For this client, the inflexibility of labor laws and the power of labor unions is a far bigger constraint to her IT agility than is the complexity of IT systems or internal processes.

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The Boeing Dreamliner was delayed multiple times due to the complexity of new outsource vendors, using new processes, to produce new designs and from too far away.

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Another idea: Instead of only rewarding IT and business people for adding more processes and functionality, reward them for removing complexity.

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