Many times, the people in the company either know how to manage complexity or can learn it very quickly.
Managing even a small portfolio is becoming more complex--good news for startups, such as IPValue and ThinkFire, that help manage complexity.
Rather CIOs must earn a leadership role based on their superior ability to manage complexity and their understanding of how technology can support the business.
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More than speed, though, Cisco wants the router to manage complexity.
This competency focuses on the ability to manage complexity.
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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The new service is intended to hide some the complexity involved in using Amazon to manage the complexity of running your business that way.
In all three areas of white-collar work, companies are struggling to manage growing complexity.
It's a tool to help manage the complexity of a competitive landscape and facilitate analysis and action.
One way for manufacturers to manage growing complexity is to adopt common standards.
Going forward, column-based analytic servers can manage the complexity that overwhelmed humans in 2008, but standards and regulatory authority must extend worldwide to instruments, institutions and people.
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The response of the Basel Committee, the Financial Stability Board, the European Commission and the G20 has been to devise ever more complicated and more detailed rules to limit the risks to banks and the wider economy of the byzantine complexity of the way banks manage themselves and the astonishing counter-intuitive complexity of products created by financial innovation.
The first step is to ensure there is a flexible and fluid IT environment that directly and indirectly helps everyone communicate, while allowing IT to manage costs and reduce complexity.
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While it would certainly be possible to reroute that data stream through a device that captures and archives it, such an effort would increase the complexity of a VoIP deployment and make it harder to manage.
This type of complexity is self-created by the way we structure and manage our organizations.
It could help us manage resources, be aware of natural or human disasters more rapidly and deal with the enormous complexity of the world more effectively.
Rather it requires organizations to fundamentally transform the way they procure, manage and use their IT applications and services which, in turn, drives up the cost and complexity of implementation.
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