Do they continue to talk big on autonomy, while quietly keeping a grip on all the levers in Whitehall?
Ms King says Featurespace has the potential to be as big as Autonomy or ARM – two of Cambridge's brightest hi-tech stars.
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The director in "Broken Embraces" is on his own, a writer and director who is not contradicted or even questioned by anyone, a little big boss whose autonomy with the expensive machine is unchallenged.
The Pentagon is looking to the private sector for help, setting up a "Defence Information Unit-Experimental" to help it "leverage best lessons from Silicon Valley on issues like big data, analytics, autonomy and robotics", says the IISS.
So many organizations suffer "disempowerment fatigue," the weariness of big responsibility, little autonomy and unrelenting bureaucracy.
The chairman of H.P., the technology industry star Ray Lane, magnanimously stepped down as chairman following H.P.'s overpriced acquisition of Autonomy, a big data enterprise, which resulted in an $8.8 billion H.P. writedown.
They are UK financial analyst Paul Morland, who wrote to HP's investor relations department in September 2011 to "tell them they were making a big mistake"; a former Autonomy finance executive who told the British company's auditor Deloitte of "improper accounting"; and the author of a widely circulated email which questioned Autonomy's claims about the popularity of its flagship software.
Though that has waned a bit, retailers reap much higher profit margins from selling their own foodstuffs than from products made by big conglomerates.The founder of Autonomy fought back against Hewlett-Packard's allegations of accounting irregularities at his former company, which HP bought last year.
"We're big believers in reproductive autonomy," Ramji Srinivasan said.
Still, it'll a big step forward in autonomy when it does make it to consumers.
