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The experiences of leading state, foreign, and federal governments show that at least four characteristics are common to successful hierarchies of performance measures.
For all the narcissism of those who are busy ringing around the anthills of Los Angeles and New York in order to be "winners" in those loony hierarchies, the new boomtowns in the United States are in places recently regarded as pastureland: places like Douglas, Colo., and Fayette, Georgia, and yes, even Camden, Maine.
Second, unlike strict hierarchies, a child term may have more than one parent terms.
Federal agencies that are developing such hierarchies for their organizations are finding that organizationwide performance measurement efforts take time and require the active involvement of staff at all organizational levels.
To achieve the morphological and functional specialization of cells and tissues, suites of genes are expressed in spatial and temporal patterns determined by regulatory hierarchies responding to environmental cues.