"It's time to look at this industry like any other competitive industry -- not as an outgrowth of the old land-line model," said John Scott, deputy general counsel for Verizon Wireless.
"These big facilities in remote locations are never going to be a good model," said Deborah Fowler, the deputy director of Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit organization that advocates for juvenile justice reforms.
"We will of course improve our models," said Dr. Mojib Latif, the deputy director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, "but I don't really see the biggest or most important results changing in the next 10 years".
The makeup of the commission, chaired by Californian Democrat Phil Angelides with a Republican former Congressman, Bill Thomas, as his deputy, was modelled on the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, whose report on the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre went on to become a best-seller.
The Bloomberg model, under the direction of Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and Amanda Burden, the City Planning Commissioner, was based to a large extent on undoing the Moses legacy: rezoning for commercial and residential use large tracts of waterfront property that had once been the province of industry.
Sheriff's deputies displayed a model of Mr. Castro's home that from one angle looked as innocent as a doll house.
The initiative, called "First Deputy Exchange," is modeled after something Mr. Bloomberg introduced at the financial services firm he founded, Bloomberg L.P. The goal, Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement on Tuesday, is to ask each deputy to parachute into another area of government, then to report directly to the mayor in recommending any changes or new ideas.
Meanwhile, interest in hybrid models has grown, Lutz Meschke, deputy chairman and board member wrote in a post on LinkedIn.
"The market today is choosing the business model for the future," said Séverin Cabannes, deputy chief executive at Société Générale, "and voting for the universal banking model".
Deputy Pryke revealed the new model for health and social care in Jersey in July.
Norma Drummond, the county's deputy commissioner for planning, said the model ordinance accepted last month could help municipalities streamline some aspects of preparation for new housing.
