For instance, the same technology that guides missiles can be repackaged to provide satellite-based air-traffic management systems.

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Craig Raeburn of TyMetrix, a provider of Web-based management solutions for corporate law departments, correctly acknowledges that technology is not a substitute for the knowledge, intuition, and skill of lawyers and other legal service professionals.

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Chief Executive Pedro Pablo Cuevas has introduced performance-based pay to motivate employees, as well as new technology for the chain's data management systems.

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Vineet Nayar is chief executive officer of HCL Technologies, the India-based global information technology services company, and author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down (Harvard Business Press, June 2010).

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Boeing, which moved its corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago 16 months ago to emphasise its diversification, is also forging ahead with ambitious plans to offer satellite-based air-traffic management services as soon as governments have the courage to adopt this technology.

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