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Sorry I responded too quickly. People, Ideas, Hardware (technology) In that order are what you should focus. Near 100% of managements time should be spent on people and ideas. Get that right and the people will take care of the technology.

One tool to implement that is a mission order (No civilian counterpart), which is where you define an intent to be achieved and operating parameters to be met but not how that intent is to be carried out. parameters are mutually agreed on - and the subordinate has the right to refuse. Usually you leave most of the definition of the intent up to the subordinate. Like "build a database useful for storing graph data" or "Find a way to improve ads customer acquisition".

EFAS culture - An implementation of blitzkrieg for business gleaned from interviews done in the 70's implements this nicely.

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