Technology drives best in flat organizations, not hierarchical, so the more hierarchical we come with this, the longer it is going to take us to implement.
Maria Cantwell: “Technology drives best in flat organizations, not hierarchical, so the more hierarchical we come with this, the longer…”
On the recordJune 24, 2014
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Senator Cantwell discusses the impact of organizational structure on implementation speed.
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