Another way to think about this is ratios of budgets to departments, ratios of "core" vs "experimental" spend, and ratios of IC's to managers. If you map those

Another way to think about this is ratios of budgets to departments, ratios of "core" vs "experimental" spend, and ratios of IC's to managers. If you map those constraints out for the system that you're building you can tailor things a little more to your business while making intelligent trade-offs.