That makes it a vitally important innovation in enterprise structure, because sclerosis is what saps the might of former greats like GM.

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In The Elastic Enterprise, Nick Vitalari and I use Apple as one example of an enterprise structure that permits growth at low relative cost.

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The spreading shadow economy also reflects the changing structure of modern enterprise.

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That's how Las Vegas became Las Vegas -- a balance of private enterprise but also a regulatory structure that made sure that people could come here and enjoy themselves and thrive and bring their families in an environment that was safe for them and secure.

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Meanwhile the Richard Ivey School of Business has also announced a revamp of its MBA course structure, incorporating what it calls "cross-enterprise leadership".

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Analysts such as Peter Christy at the Internet Research Group refer to this as an inversion of enterprise IT from a business system-centric to a people-centric structure.

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In a volatile atmosphere like the present you should think of capital structure as a variable that can greatly influence the success or failure of a business enterprise.

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By then Schmidt had separated the enterprise search business from ads and was thinking about how Google's loosely organized but collaborative and dynamic structure could be useful to older corporations.

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