However, measuring workforce experience is complicated because no single person, department or function owns the experience from end-to-end.

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End-users and departments are choosing their own devices, selecting and using Software as a Service applications and other cloud resources, and generally doing end-arounds to bypass the IT function whenever they feel like it.

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Just over a year ago, my wife wrote a small check for an end-of-the-year school function of some sort.

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The big discounts are a function of one of the attractive elements of closed-end funds: managers are not forced to sell when times get tough.

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After studying a few exceptions to the pattern of disruption, Christensen concluded that the only way a big company could avoid being disrupted was to set up a small spinoff company that would function as a start-up, make the new low-end product, and be independent enough to ignore what counted as sensible for the mother ship.

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In addition, there is only limited standardization in what these menus and buttons look like and how they function, contributing to confusion and frustration on the part of end-users.

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The end-to-end intelligence and dynamic control of the electricity across the grid has become the defining function of the smart grid.

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For example, if the cloud detects that the client has high-end graphics, it can let the client do some rendering, transmitting abbreviated math that describes the function to be rendered, rather than forcing the server end to do the work centrally and ship lots of pixel values down the line.

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