So why have many traditional business organizations been slow to embrace collaborative decision making instead of relying on command-control systems?
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As information is withheld, hierarchies and command-control structures are reinforced.
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In the early 90s it seemed likely that Democrats could push through single-payer healthcare and a command-and-control solution to acid rain.
This was accomplished without signing onto any multi-national treaties or suffering under a heavy-handed command-and-control regulatory regime, and Texas is leading the way.
When firms reorganize around Scrum teams, but still focus on delivering with big plans, heavy processes, top-down command-and-control leadership, the potential gains are constrained.
And it explains the world's top-down, command-and-control approach to environmental policymaking.
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General John Jumper, Air Force chief of staff, says the military is upgrading al-Udeid for use as a command-and-control center if the Saudis put CAOC off-limits.
Others hope this will be a re-ascendence of command-and-control IT, which favors corporate deployments and the standardization on a single platform, presumably Windows, for better management and control.
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That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
We have moved from a U.S. capability that is extent and will continue to exist, to one that is now -- can be made available to NATO and operate under NATO rules of engagement, NATO agreements on how the command-and-control system is supposed to operate, and formally, under the operational control of a NATO commander as opposed to a U.S. commander.
Ferretti, vice president at the Chicago Climate Exchange, extolled emissions trading, noting that the practice had helped bring sulfur dioxide and acid rain under control much less expensively than traditional command-and-control regulation.
Information, communications, and networking technologies have all facilitated substantial advances in rational control mechanisms such as monitoring and command-and-control, while creating a hierarchy of expertise that requires deference to the more technologically sophisticated.
And today -- to answer the second part of your question -- today, as I speak, the authority -- command and control authority for the enforcement of the no-fly zone is being shifted to NATO.
Cloud computing empowered the line of business manager to go around the command-and-control CIO.
Individual behavior is managed methodically through command-and-control mechanisms, which are supported by technology and regular monitoring.
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Its amazing powers, in the hands of entrepreneurs, began to foil command-and-control monoliths of any kind.
The power has slipped too far away from the command-and-control CIO for that to happen.
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Hierarchical command-and-control styles of leadership are giving way to flatter and more collaborative leadership frameworks.
Today's electrical system is a creaking relic lacking the sophisticated command-and-control tools necessary to ensure reliability.
While the U.S. does not plan to contribute troops, it will provide logistical support, command-and-control assistance and intelligence.
Damballa discovered the botnet in March and has been tracking its communication with command-and-control servers around the world.
Nato said it had hit a "known command-and-control building" in the area, adding it did not "target individuals".
It seems a sound principle, and incompetence was hardly unknown in the traditional, command-and-control model of public services.
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Experts said they believe Flame reports back the information to a central command-and-control network that has constantly changed location.
Democrats are on the side of command-and-control mandates that deprive individuals of choice.
Sputnik reminded us that the Soviets had an advantage in the command-and-control game.
Within a command-and-control regulatory program, performance-based standards may offer advantages over standards specifying design, behavior, or manner of compliance.
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NICE, combined with England's command-and-control health care system, helps keep health costs far lower in that country than here.
But Iraq suffers from one major disadvantage: it has been run, like the former Soviet Union, as a command-and-control economy.
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