This ideas-and-data approach lets Google use fewer managers--one for every 20 line employees, compared with one for as few as 7 industrywide.

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But his passion is data and investing in start-ups that have unique ideas about how to convert raw data into valuable information.

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With three snappy bullet points, all the disparate and apparently random ideas flowing out of Downing Street - localism, big society, data.gov, mutuals, payment-by-results, elected police commissioners, social enterprise - are all suddenly supposed to slot neatly into one big ism.

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Still in embryo, the ideas include data systems that allow drivers to map the fastest and most eco-friendly routes.

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