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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by WalterBright on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:59PM (#34293922)
the lack of an effective feedback loop.

Of course. The feedback loop for government is different from that for business. Failure in business means going out of business. This powerfully incentivizes business to stop rewarding failure. Like when Alexa lost $billions and Amazon cut off its funding.

No such feedback exists for government operations.

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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by acdha on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:08PM (#34294009)
Feedback loops definitely exist for government: contracts are cut or sent to other companies, agency heads are grilled by Congress and replaced, budgets are cut / reallocated, entire agencies are combined or split apart, and politicians win or lose elections. They're not necessarily as effective as we'd like but they certainly exist.
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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by WalterBright on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:16PM (#34294073)
> Feedback loops definitely exist for government

I didn't say otherwise. I said they were different loops.

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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by rrdharan on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:07PM (#34294002)
Do you mean Alexa instead of Azure?
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Re:Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3T Per Year (2016) by WalterBright on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:12PM (#34294045)
Yes, thank you for the correction. Azure is Microsoft's!
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