Zooming way out, it’s an interesting case study in innovation. The military must be the largest and longest tightly-controlled organization of humans in the US.

Zooming way out, it’s an interesting case study in innovation. The military must be the largest and longest tightly-controlled organization of humans in the US. They certainly have spent time thinking about this issue. But the marketplace (both “of ideas” and literal profit-driven) is even bigger, and found the better solution. I wonder if the military, and other large innovation-seeking organizations, could give members a “Desk Budget” which is carefully tracked as “voting with your dollars” and eventually bring some of the popular items into standard issue through central procurement. Basically crowdsourcing the constant scan for market innovation.