Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017)

Re:Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017) by hyperman1 on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:06AM (#21782182)

I presume the bureacratic decision makers design these strategies exactly for what you use them for.

They have to do something, and they have to demonstrate it costs money and effort.

So they hire a bunch of externs with the intent of producing powerpoints, and put some buts in seats before them. Get someone to create some procedures and buy or build some software to support it. Money has been spent, which proves beyond doubt the problem has been solved.

Meanwhile the actual workers can do actual work, and the strategy is vague enough that everybody can demonstrate to have done something.

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Re:Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017) by wool_gather on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:34AM (#21783027)

There's also a CYA element to a degree, in that the person actually in charge can blame the development process or execution of the "strategy" (optionally along with one or more of the people who were nominally in charge of those things) if their attempt goes awry.

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