The Doom Loop in Government
An older S+B article nails why some companies are failing to innovate correctly – this also applies to our increasingly isolated government.
The risk such companies face is getting caught in a development dynamic where innovation is driven not by a focus on what the customer values and is willing to pay for, but on solving an engineering problem. This dynamic leads to an internally focused development cycle [Kevin] Dehoff has nicknamed “the doom loop.” In this iterative process, satisfying the customer becomes a secondary concern…
In our case the primary “engineering problem” is providing security. The trajectories chosen (DoD and DHS’s ineffective spending) are entirely wrong – especially top down nation building – and the attempts to fix the various problems along these pathways are each an interation of the doom loop. Each of these iterations saps some level of legitimacy as well as a degree of tax payer dollars. There is a critical point to be reached.
-Shlok
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