At 03:47 AM 10/12/2002 +0000, you wrote: >The sheer complexity of modern technologies requires that R&D be a team >effort; no one individual acting alone can supply the expertise needed to >advance the state of the art. If you have a team effort, you need >administrators to coordinate efforts, allocate resources, etc.
You need administrative/coordinating functions; but these don't necessarily have to become the domain of professional administrators. On the whole, workers are much savvier about how to coordinate/administrate their work than administrators. At least, i find this to be so in the software business. Joanna
