A geographicallydistributedorganizationshouldconsideran enterprisearchitecture that distributesownershipofeachmajorcomponent (frameworks, databases, applications,...) toa singlelocation.
With an understanding of what tacit knowledge exists, how it is distributed across the organization, how people influence each other, which ideas are considered important, and useful metrics-based insight on all of this, organizations are much more readily armed to transform its structure, processes, or culture.
And if they had asked us we would probably have said: well, that's fine provided you make sure it is given to everybody in an even-handed way and that it's not given to the USDA. For example, if you're going to distribute milk powder we certainly don't want the USDA to be the organization through which this milk powder is distributed.
In San Francisco, California, a volunteer organization called the Urban Wind Task Force has distributed 27 wind-monitoring stations throughout the city to survey sites for potential turbine installations.