If Beijing's goal is to choke off unrestrained foreign borrowing by provincial governments and centralizecontrol over China's finances, Zhu's willingness to let Gitic die means his economic reform agenda has not been completely blocked, argues Ballingal.
Larry Ponemon argues that at large providers like the Cleveland Clinic, new systems have helped centralize and control patient records instead of allowing to collect in disparate places around a hospital.
Bernstein argues that businesses too rarely make the case for business that corporations employ millions of people, invent products that make lives better, and serve as a democratizing force against the natural tendencies of governments to control and centralize.