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The US military is a massive inefficient bureaucracy. Just look at the $5 billion and 8 years wasted on their failure to implement an ERP software system that
by fallingknife 3y ago
The US military is a massive inefficient bureaucracy. Just look at the $5 billion and 8 years wasted on their failure to implement an ERP software system that is standard in large organiations https://www.thirdstage-consulting.com/lessons-from-the-us-air-force-oracle-erp-failure/ https://www.thirdstage-consulting.com/lessons-from-the-us-ai...
Note the senate investigation report that describes an “organizational disaster” that caused the failure. Don't assume competence because of size and persistence.
- kube-system 3y agoThe US military is the largest employer on Earth, some amount of bureaucracy is inevitable. But they are not a business and do not optimize for dollar-efficiency like for-profit businesses do. They optimize for other goals. 'Wasting' 5 billion out of an 842 billion dollar budget, for an organization that doesn't even have to make money, is nothing. Plenty of startups squander even more money, and never accomplish any of the entire point of a for-profit company, making money.
- CobaltFire 3y agoI think this is a common civilian misunderstanding of how the military breeds competence. The US Military is absurdly competent at what its mission is, war fighting and logistics. What it is not competent at is things that are not yet internalized as part of that mission. Unfortunately non visible logistics (software) hasn’t made that cultural shift yet, and once it does will take a long time to breed the institutional competence that the military leans on, primarily due to the compensation gulf.
- bee_rider 3y agoWhat does efficiency have to do with anything? Efficiency and robustness are often opposed (one hates redundancy and the other loves it, for example).