Interconnecting across existing hierarchies may be more effective

Analysis of the US intelligence community, using small-world network metrics of Watts & Strogatz [2], suggests that a strategy of interconnecting effectively across hierarchies – allied to the associated changes organisational culture that demand and reward knowledge sharing – may be more effective than introducing a Tsar.[1]

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