Google Maps for iPhone delivers more immediate utility about information of great complexity than anything Apple has designed, ever.
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The GAO, in the report released Thursday, said six of the seven governments also described difficulties with the complexity of the information technology systems they need to put in place to assist consumers in making their insurance choices.
The FTC, which is mainly staffed by lawyers, has beefed up its technological know-how in recent years by hiring computer scientists, such as Ed Felten of Princeton, who better understand the complexity of how information is passed around on the Internet.
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The huge complexity of some investigations in the 'information age' can mean this takes time.
The spread of computers through companies has added a third layer of complexity: the task of managing the information systems themselves.
Another tier of complexity has to do with differences in the information required to send, say, a wire transfer to different countries.
The sheer complexity of modern financial markets and the torrent of information that is published each day are a boon to the providers of financial advice.
Apple has some enterprise hooks, but just as with the Android platform, most Chief Information Officers resort to third-party solutions that raise the complexity of device management and the total cost of ownership of the mobile solutions.
Now think of the possibilities, at this remarkable moment in time--as we climb out of the global downturn, enter the so-called "new normal" set of economic conditions, adapt to a business and competitive environment of accelerating complexity and stand witness to a historic explosion of information.
Representatives of large, sophisticated companies that have been actively working to implement the expected requirements spoke eloquently at an October 2011 SEC Roundtable discussion of the complexity of their supply chains and the difficulty in obtaining solid information from their upstream suppliers on the origins of common, commodity metals like tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold in purchased products and components.
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The problem has been the sheer complexity of the data and the ensuing processing and analysis of the information.
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We will need to figure out how to keep the large and diverse set of participants engaged, how to share the risks and value of innovation, how to manage complexity of this system without laying out too many constraints, and how to manage flow of information and activity across the boundaries where the degree of trust is yet to be established.
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