As CIOs will remain accountable for quality of service, financial performance, compliancy and security, it is a corporate obligation to get shadow IT under control.

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Opinion polls suggest that the most popular politician among the Kosovars is still Ibrahim Rugova, the pacifist leader who led the province's shadow administration when it was still under direct Serb control.

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The comments fuelled speculation that Mr Portillo had made a deal with Mr Hague to take full control over economic policy before his surprise promotion to the shadow cabinet earlier this month.

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Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander accused the prime minister of not being in control of the agenda or of his own party.

BBC: David Cameron in the Today studio

Mr. Allman wryly tells the story of how Disney interests used shadow companies, shrewd legal maneuvering and a compliant state legislature to take absolute control of the 47 square miles of central Florida wasteland that became Disney World and turned the Orlando area into an El Dorado of amusement.

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