Seems like kind of a corporate/organizational culture thing. Imperfectly distributed knowledge, hierarchical decision-making in groups with misaligned incentive

Seems like kind of a corporate/organizational culture thing. Imperfectly distributed knowledge, hierarchical decision-making in groups with misaligned incentives, the limitations of communication and the capacities of individuals... These and more make it hard to operate a large enterprise intelligently and cohesively, and oversights will happen. Corporations can certainly seem to act dumb or just learn slowly as a whole, regardless of who they're made up of. If you go bigger and look at nation-scale, the same problems are present on a greater level.