[quoderat]

"Don't you think they have spent a lot of time thinking this through, consulting with experts, and debating internally whether its been a good decsion?"

Having worked at a few large companies, it's more likely that some executive got scared, hired a few toadies to tell him what he wanted to hear, then put in place a "plan" that he'd already decided and that is doomed to failure.

That's the way it works most places.