Wayne Litcomb is the president and chief operating officer of Litcomb Electronics. He founded the company and has led it to its prominent place in the electronics field. He has manufacturing plants or retail outlets in 40 states. Litcomb is finding, however, that he cannot "keep track" of things the way he did in the past. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of decentralizing the firm's decision-making activities among the various local and regional managers. Also discuss what functions Litcomb might want to be performed centrally and why he would choose these functions.