Office regionalizations vs new offices
Office regionalization allows a better presence, but...
Avoids the major overhead of a new office
overhead is organizational, financial...
It is possible if countries have:
have similar culture
close or identical languages
good contacts with one another
Regionalization was based on existing (national) offices
Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Sophia Antipolis, 20th September, 2002
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