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> The internal budget "prices" would be off the charts unbelievable. I find that this occurs when an infrastructure team considers itself a "platform". The onl
by hitekker 6y ago
> The internal budget "prices" would be off the charts unbelievable.
I find that this occurs when an infrastructure team considers itself a "platform". The only supplier of an asset that everyone else demands can set the "price" of the asset as high as they want.
- P00RL3N0 6y agoThis isn't actually how monopolies work. Theoretically, monopolies cannot just charge what they want for a product, unless demand is perfectly inelastic. i.e. At some point, people (consumers) will stop paying or move to a substitute.
- TuringNYC 6y agoI've seen multiple corporate re-orgs (Fortune 100) and you are right -- internal monopolies cannot just charge what they want. Eventually, internal customers get fed up and "revlot" -- then you have a corporate re-org where IT infra/services get distributed across business lines or lower. Eventually that blows up too -- re-composing data at the parent level (e.g., for quarterly financial reporting) becomes too exhausting and the company decides to revert to centralized services.