"a top down model" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a method or approach that starts with an overall or general concept and then breaks it down into smaller, more specific parts. Example: In business management, a top down model is often used to delegate tasks and responsibilities from higher level executives to lower level employees.
"But it can't be a top-down model, where it's imposed on people, because even the best top-down model imposed on people doesn't work".
What, for instance, would he say if someone told him there was too much control, too much of a top-down model?
Researchers openly state that their approach assumes a "top-down" model, in which trip requests and vehicle dispatching are all centralized, which is obviously not the case in the real world.
A new mudshore management tool, a top-down model, called S-factor analysis, is proposed and developed to a semi-quantitative state by way of a demonstration of its possibilities.
Nathan Myhrvold knows that the skills that made Microsoft successful in software — technical proficiency, rapid response — are not transferrable to what the company calls the content business, which relies more on a bottom-up rather than a top-down model.
It characterises Chinese engagement in these states as a top-down model of stability, with China often providing military assistance and arms to host governments and interested in maintaining stable bilateral relations, only intervening when it's vital interests are threatened.
The fact that this system – a top-down model that reflects the "Beveridge settlement" of the 1940s – is neither affordable nor successful, and has long since reached its limits, will not guarantee its demise in the face of superior alternatives.
Great ideas can come from outside an organisation: Effective leadership in government no longer follows a top-down model, with executives promulgating orders and rank-and-file workers carrying them out.
Nathan Myhrvold knows that the skills that made Microsoft successful in software technical proficiency, rapid response are not transferrable to what the company calls the content business, which relies more on a bottom-up rather than a top-down model.
A top-down model oriented around the business value chain that defines business demand in real time and drives the dynamic allocation of virtual resources from tailored fit-for-purpose physical resources leads to an effective business solution and resource efficient Next Generation Datacenter (NGDC).
