Talent-spotting has traditionally been left to a middle-management layer of audit supervisors until people get closer to being a partner (partly because employees tend to be invisible to many of their superiors, working as they do in small teams at the offices of the client).
Real DVD also installs a new layer of digital-rights-management (DRM) code on files, blocking users from copying them more than five times to other computers.
In many companies it is the layer of management, the so-called middle manager, who can seem to be unnecessary when the bottom line is threatened.
Will Hitachi-MHI, like many merged Japanese companies (Mizuho Bank is a prominent current example), being unable to reduce staff, simply layer on management levels that slow decision-making and dull competitiveness?
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Among other things, it established something called the National Veterans Business Development Corporation--aka, the Veterans Corporation, a quasi-government agency that also solicits private funds--as well as a new layer of management at the SBA and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs dedicated to veteran entrepreneurs.
Now, organizations can create a cross-department, enterprise-wide identity management process that provides a layer of intelligence to give enterprises the business insights needed to strengthen IT controls and reduce operational risk.
Phase II includes cutting costs by removing an entire layer of operations management, which will see the bank shedding thousands of lower-level jobs.
The electronics retailer this afternoon announced a major management overhaul, including the removal of the entire senior-most layer of U.S. operations.
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He says the old system was not perfect, but it worked - and he fears the new one will become less effective because of a new layer of management.
Beginning with the well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure, Gartner added in a Business and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.
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