Despite the fact that it weighs only a little more than 80 pounds and folds up to fit into an average car trunk, the Segway carts around an impressive amount of redundant technology.

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Doctors with better intentions may simply believe that more sophisticated laboratory tests and imaging technology have made the autopsy redundant.

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The technology, called RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks), involves clever algorithms for dealing out data among an assortment of hard-disk platters.

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Little to help implement further changes, like standardizing information technology systems, coordinating purchasing, eliminating redundant treasury departments and figuring out exact job descriptions for top executives.

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But when technology changes, so that once-essential staff become not only expendable but redundant, even Indian managers' ingenuity is tested.

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