Re:The Lesson to Unlearn
by scarejunba on Saturday December 07, 2019 @03:06PM
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No, it's not that. It's that often, to make a new product you have to have multiple parts of the business work together. Then you will find yourself working with the other department and they'll frustrate you.
Some places attempt to solve this by saying that you can use whatever vendors you need to solve the problem but often the best place to solve it is the other department since the solution is infeasible without them.
The problem is that often the solution is infeasible with them because the guys who made them good have left and now you only have the lameos.
As to why they can't operate as independent business unit? Well, there's the Theory of the Firm to tell you why that doesn't work often.
To be honest, if a large company has multiple departments that essentially govern themselves, perhaps they could just give them proper names, as if they were subsidiary companies? Because it seems to me that the mechanism behind the "best performers leave when they feel the average performance of workers in the company goes down" is really bounded by the company name. I.e. people in department of frobnification leave because of the people in department of foobing bars. But people in Frobnificator perhaps wouldn't leave because of people in FooBars.io, even if legally/administratively the two situations were equivalent.