Well for some reason it's those people [1] who have the money so they call the shots. Do you know of organizations where an internal drive for excellence is cu

Well for some reason it's those people [1] who have the money so they call the shots. Do you know of organizations where an internal drive for excellence is cultivated? Where technical people communicate directly across hierarchy levels and horizontally? Maybe even outside the company? [1]: People who are relatively close to the customer and not the implementation. Those people don't tend to understand how efficient some things are because they can't estimate how long something should take from lower principles which they have a benchmark for. This makes them much happier software users.