As efficiency washes over every discipline, the associated trends of automation and software-driven decision-making are putting people out of work.

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In 2003 Schneider decided to invest in a fleet-wide "tactical planning simulator" that would use software algorithms to mimic the decision making of human dispatchers on an inhumanly large scale.

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Delivered through web-based software, BrightScope data drives better decision-making for individual investors, corporate plan sponsors, asset managers, broker-dealers, and financial advisors.

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These companies have been able to improve their decision-making based on the infrastructure technology and analytics-related software they have been developing.

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The consumerization of software meanwhile illustrates how people are just plain fed up with big company decision making, and they are opting instead to freelance their IT purchases.

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