All the rent seeking and corruption that plagued centralized systems before the advent of crypto is trying to reassert itself —It’s just winding up in new places. I posit there is “conservation of ...

Organizational structures are at the heart of human endeavor and reflect deeply in human institutions. There is a particularly pronounced tension today between the two principal styles of ...

Led by OMB and agency CIOs, what and how the government is buying IT products is changing, and it'll have a ripple affect across the entire landscape. I wasn’t able to sit in on Steve Charles’ panel ...

This paper deals with a single-period, single-product inventory model. It is a multilocation problem with an opportunity for centralization. In the centralized system, the location's demands are ...

Marketing is complex. But organizations don't have to choose between decentralized and centralized marketing. There's a better way. We’ve all experienced chaos. You are tootling down the freeway and ...

Bitcoin was designed to be a completely decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency. Certain aspects of the Bitcoin network -- such as Bitcoin mining -- have become more centralized over time.

In light of rapidly expanding information security threats and enormous opportunities to enhance all aspects of technology on campus, Case Western Reserve launched a university-wide IT Centralization ...

The centralists, when beaten at all other points, make what they consider conclusive argument in the following: The IWW is building up the structure of the new society, and as modern industry is ...

A proposal by Germany's science minister to concentrate power over much of the country's best research is less monstrous than some are suggesting, but still leaves plenty to worry about. Few countries ...

The history of apps is a long one. Back in 1983, Steve Jobs talked about what is now known as the app store. At the time, users were required to buy applications before actually trying them out. In ...