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Brian Schatz: “If we started to capitate overhead costs at a reasonable…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Published | Video Starts at 37:52

… tolerance, to be able to get to a point where we don't need these huge bloated contracting systems and where we can rely on nimble localized solutions to these problems? If we started to capitate overhead costs at a reasonable rate and allowed organizations to adjust, it might be a little painful, it might make people a little grouchy, but that's a realistic pathway towards a more modern enterprise. But I do recognize that these are real things and some of the reason that the whole enterprise is clunky and there are 9,000 things and all the rest of it is us, not you. (37:52–38:08)

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Proposes capping overhead costs as a pathway to modernizing enterprises.

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