For instance, that piece of operations data that you remember clearly, since you prepped and presented it to your team, has a flatter downward curve (you'll remember longer) than that the now hazy sales figure a colleague mentioned during the same team meeting.
In fact, it results in developers "taking over a bigger and bigger piece of operations and, in many cases, all of it," Christensen explains.
It's part CRM, part invoicing and part productivity, rolling bits and pieces of operations management into a single dashboard, under one UI.
The Healtheon piece of the operation, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has close to 1,000 software programmers and computer engineers working full steam on producing the links under the supervision of Pavan Nigram.
"Don Knauss has had a lot of experience with the bigger piece of this operation, so it's an evolutionary and natural appointment in my view," said Marc Cohen, a beverage analyst at Goldman , Sachs
To stop any attack from wiping out a big piece of the operation, the company houses no more than 700 employees at any one data center.
To stop any attack from wiping out a big piece of the operation, the Plano, Tex.-based firm houses no more than 700 employees at any one data center.
Ten offshore drilling rigs that Loews bought for $50 million in 1989 formed what became Diamond Offshore Drilling ; Loews raked in $338 million taking a 30% piece of this operation public in 1995.
"If it works, why use something more sophisticated?" Citizen Lab's Nart Villeneuve points out that both companies may be right about the respective piece of the operation they're scrutinizing.
One takeaway: "Additionally, she [Whitman] doesn't see a scenario where HP would spin off any piece of its operations, because in her mind they all fit together".
