These planned measures are expected to include elimination of the company's matrix organizational structure, site consolidation, transfer of activities to global delivery centers, consolidation of certain central functions, cost synergies from the integration of Motorola's wireless assets, efficiencies in service operations, and company-wide process simplification.

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Strategic congruence notwithstanding, I have yet to send a card in anger, so a service like this is likely to look increasingly good to me and my unhappy brethren and sistren at a time when anything promising simplification of the celebratory process is worth a look.

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Yet somehow the process of paying taxes has resisted almost every attempt at simplification.

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