Re:Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota ...
by earthboundkid on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:25AM
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When companies try to do this, the other divisions attempt to smoother the new division in the crib and typically succeed. If you had good internal politics, they wouldn't do this, but if you had good internal politics, you wouldn't need a new division either.
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Re:Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota ...
by James_Henry on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:08AM
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> but if you had good internal politics, you wouldn't need a new division either.
I don't know if I agree with this unless you mean to define "good internal politics" as internal politics that drives a company to self-disrupt.
As shown by the article, self-disruption isn't possible as a big company because the friction of changing things like supply chains and other capital. You really need to start another company that, in a sense, competes (and sometimes at least for a time complements) the larger company. Good internal politics would help to not squash internal competition, but it isn't, I think, enough to purposefully set up that competition.