Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System...
by matt4077 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:17PM
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This discussion doesn't make much sense. Economics is the science of making organisations work. It doesn't come with rigid objectives; Those are inputs to the process. Now I'd be glad if the DOD accidentally let a pack of MBAs with default settings do their thing, because they'd probably create a world-wide cartel within the first year, and reduce all the world's standing armies to just themselves in a very fancy conference room within four.
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Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System...
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:28PM
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I think the problem of releasing MBA types on an organization is that they're specialists in business in general, not in whatever a particular organization wants to do. The actual goal is just a parameter - input to the process. And that input can be changed, or abstracted away, and as a result you get a typical soulless corporation - an organization that lost its soul, it's actual object-level goal, and remains a mindless automaton optimizing profits.
Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System...
by killjoywashere on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:54PM
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They're like those fungi that infect snails and cause them to become zombies, crawling to the tops of blades of grass, where the birds eat them, they infect the birds, the birds die, and then the next generation of snails come along and eat the dead bird, re-infecting themselves.
MBAs are a zombie fungus disease upon companies