Not today, not tomorrow, but months or even years down the line when they are committed to the product and it is fully integrated into their work-flow.
Infinera's optical routing gear is built around an all-in-one optical networking chip--which it calls a Photonic Integrated Circuit--that shrinks down the work done by a hodgepodge of parts in boxes from other vendors onto a pair of chips smaller than a fingernail.
With work and personal life integrated into smartphones -- and messages from your boss just one click away from a map of your destination -- it's difficult to separate the two, Uzzi says.
In a truly globally-integrated economy, investment, work and people flow like never before.
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In fact, the solution to unlocking the true potential of infotainment may end up looking a lot like this: a dumb terminal paired to an LCD in the dash, a built-in USB port, integrated Bluetooth and a small-but-passionate team of developers that work to safely port applications into driver-friendly wrappers.
In contrast, those companies that excel work in cross-functional teams through the entire process to develop integrated strategies plans, measures and even incentives.
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What emerged was Agile test-driven software development, where work is done in an iterative fashion and fully integrated on a continuing basis.
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Google: For one thing, Apple Maps is a pretty impressive piece of work, including turn-by-turn navigation, crowd-sourced traffic information and integrated Siri voice controls.
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They are standardizing basic procedures to help reduce errors and condensing long-winded practice guidelines that harried doctors don't read into simple checklists integrated into daily work flow.
At the meeting, councillors sought a commitment from the government to work with community leaders to allay fears about the impact of the change and the way ex-prisoners will be integrated into the surrounding area.
Such initiatives, whether in the form of skills-based mentoring or integrated and structured networks of training, can unarguably contribute measurably to a more collaborative work culture.
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