[yodon]

>you will end up with different divisions trying to solve the same problems in ways that either confound each other or the customer.

I'm pretty sure you just described most of the 100 largest consumer products companies, and a good fraction of the Fortune 500.

[0]https://consumergoods.com/top-100-consumer-goods-companies-2...

[p_l]

More like every larger corporation...

If you have non factory assembly line[1] personnel above 1000 chances you have that

[1] physical and direct nature of work sometimes countermands weird multiple solutions

[hinkley]

I’m very much describing a Fortune 500 company that nearly went bankrupt due to a combination of this and drinking the Jack Welch Koolaid.