It is delivering speed, agility and cost reduction to IT and other functional areas within the enterprise.

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This team can take recommendations from functional areas, suggest new ideas and look for disconnects between the functional strategies and tactics.

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The program has given me an understanding of many functional areas which has given me the confidence to consider other choices in my career.

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If successful, awareness of the relevant digital health opportunities and expertise in their appropriate utilization would by that point be located in the individual functional areas.

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Functional areas could utilize specific digital health solutions when they evolve to the point they are available from vendors, similar to the way other solutions are utilized by the industry.

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What I like most about this approach is that it recognizes digital health offers enabling technologies that provide improved approaches to solving fundamental problems that exist in many, if not all, functional areas.

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It does not measure the actual activity, but can provide clues that some areas are still functional.

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This means technological advances in areas such as structural and functional materials, power conversion, and reliability.

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Isolated areas of the cortex may still be functional, but damage to crucial brain relay stations disconnects them from the rest of the brain.

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To produce this report, the CFO asked each of the business heads and functional directors to give him a few highlights each week from their areas.

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