You can't do either. How a system is structured drives how the organization running it is structured; how an organization running a system is structured drives

You can't do either. How a system is structured drives how the organization running it is structured; how an organization running a system is structured drives how the system is structured. This is natural and even beneficial: it reduces communication and coordination costs, which is the costliest and hardest part of any organization or system. Perhaps that sometimes lands you in a suboptimal local minimum, but escaping that is usually quite costly in the short term. Think about how often top-down reorgs actually generate value.