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Ben Thompson, an independent consultant who runs the Stratechery blog, said the move makes sense, given the importance of design to Apple, but added: "It's significant that Ive is giving up management responsibilities – unpleasant though they may be, management is how stuff actually gets done.
"Risk management is about the stuff you don't know that you don't know," says Till Guldimann, one of the original architects of VAR.
A lot of what consultants do is stuff that senior management ought to be doing, which is really communicating effectively at all levels and putting those ideas together.
Certainly things like new medications…, there's obviously been a change in medication management… That sort of cutting edge stuff is stuff you hope you can stay abreast of, but trouble is often you don't know what deficits you may or may not have.
Management is kind of like moving stuff around on a plate.
There is stuff beneath stuff piled atop more stuff.
But stuff is stuff is stuff.
Basically, management is management.
