There are those who believe that creativity is about getting rid of structure, systems and processes and letting a thousand flowers bloom.
Sloan (see article), the legendary boss of General Motors, however, owed more to the structure and systems that they put in place in their organisations than it did on the individual's personality.
As for advising governments of emerging economies how best to structure their legal systems, various essays in the dictionary stress the importance of clear property rights, and of ensuring that these are marketable.
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Sure, there have been debates over technical details, inevitable given the unique structure of national banking systems.
All the same, the states' fiscal pinch exposes the structure of their tax systems for the ugly mess it is.
The Smart Grid resists attacks on both the physical infrastructure (substations, poles, transformers, etc.) and the cyber-structure (markets, systems, software, communications).
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Although lithium batteries heat up quickly because of their structure, they have systems and circuits in place to prevent overheating, Nishijima said.
The Industrial Revolution changed that situation, and almost more importantly, changed the culture and structure of our educational and governmental systems and approaches.
The debate today is not between big government and free market capitalism but rather about how we should structure our mixture of these two systems.
It would seem that the various tectonic collapses deep in the structure of our economic and political systems have triggered waves of kinetic energy which are rolling through human populations rather than through their usual medium of seawater.
Another obstacle to effective consolidation is the structure of continental Europe's banking systems.
Business intelligence systems are starting to give structure to raw data in ways that are meaningful to different roles in the organization.
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Some 3D systems allow the properties and internal structure of the material being printed to be varied.
We will be able to look at things like new solar systems in formation and particularly the structure of so-called 'protoplanetary discs, ' where we believe a star is growing in the middle and planets are forming around the outside.
Beginning with the well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure, Gartner added in a Business and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.
Yet successive defense programs have justified reductions in force structure on the grounds that quantitative improvements in platforms, systems, and manpower allow commanders to do the same or even more with less.
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But such ventures as Visa Commerce will force Visa to transform almost everything about its business: its computer systems, its rules and regulations, its fee structure, its corporate personality.
They hope to drive the program into a political and technological dead-end by denying it the synergy and efficiency that can come from an integrated management structure and by diverting funds from space- to ground-based defensive systems.
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The "partnership" that Gates wants to alter operates within a dense, tight web of rules, laws, contracts, bureaucratic structures, habits, licensure requirements, training regimens, HR systems and a hundred other factors best described as policy and structure.
Hierarchical systems find their roots in modernist models of creating systems of certainty and security through highly delineated boundaries of function, structure, order and logic.
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The Dodge Durango, Ford Explorer, Land Rover LR4 and the Jeep Grand Cherokee are built using a car-like unibody structure, but add a reinforced sub-frame and offer advanced traction management systems that give them added off-road and bad-weather prowess.
Few legacy systems or processes means entrepreneurs and organizations have the chance now to re-structure the market and industries to newer business concepts.
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Though both companies are coy about bandwidth and compression, in brief trials both systems generally sounded good, even smack in the middle of a big aboveground parking structure.
The Millennium Stadium is a brand-new structure from top to bottom, but Centre Court is 80 years old, and lacks the ventilation systems of modern stadia.
The ring-fence structure makes a distinction between the bits of banking that need saving (deposit-taking banks, payment systems and the like) and the bits that do not (bonus-gorging investment bankers).
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