Intensive-care medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity and a test of whether such complexity can, in fact, be humanly mastered.
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That kind of management can make the difference between IT really delivering business value and just managing cost and complexity.
They are also able to keep their working balances in dollars, reducing the complexity of managing international trade.
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Managing the sheer logistical complexity of cities is a prodigious task.
Challenges to be overcome include security issues, the complexity of managing multiple distributed systems, and the mistrust that may exist between companies sharing each other's computing resources, Barrett said.
For many companies, the sheer complexity of managing a data center so that it meets all regulatory, industry and governance requirements, and is also protected against all other types of data loss, is overwhelming.
Yet managing the medical care of 313 million Americans will involve problems of scale and complexity unlike those of managing the care of 60 million Brits or 35 million Canadians.
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The spread of computers through companies has added a third layer of complexity: the task of managing the information systems themselves.
Consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by orders of magnitude.
"It adds a level of complexity, " says a Lehman Brothers managing director, Barbara Byrne.
Issues to consider include ease of deployment, managing backup and data access, support, security, network complexity, device management, operating system diversity, total cost of ownership and integration of various tablet platforms at the application, mobile device management process and system level.
But he would point out - and his fellow directors would agree - that he is already in the bottom quartile, and probably in the bottom decile, in respect of the pay, bonuses and other longer-term incentives he receives for managing a bank of RBS's size, international spread and complexity.
In the past it was only multinational companies that could afford to compete with global supply chains, not just because of the cost and complexity of operating trucks, aircraft and warehouses on different continents but also because of the difficulty of managing all these diverse elements.
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