In the Age of Hyper-Specialization a Notable Development Is Micro-Specialization

In the age of hyper-specialization a notable development is micro-specialization. This approach - e.g. Amazon's Topcoder - has appeal when a company faces a very stiff challenge, in this case to create a complex computer programme. What course of action is preferable?

A) Create a global network of many well-qualified individuals, each to write and test a sub-component of the overall computer code
B) Take no action because the manager with responsibility for the creation of the computer code using a global network would have enormous difficulty integrating the numerous individual results because of the complexity of the overall task
C) Take no action because micro-specialization is just like the traditional horizontal division of labour
D) None of these

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