More interesting to me is the second half of their article, and them having every team track profit and losses and be held accountable for being profitable to an external customer or another internal team.<p>And the talked tackled the "R&D problem" by having R&D teams find a "sponsor" who would benefit from their eventual work. Really curious how it'll work out.<p>Do you end up with more efficiency by making every team compete in an internal marketplace and have to address customer needs to stay profitable? Or do teams find ways to carve out mini-monolopies and moats just like in the outside world and live off the fat of inefficiency.
Ah... I have memories of “disruptive” managers lauding this approach to management whole kit and kaboodle.<p>I derided it as reminiscent of soviet-style of management by collectives and committees.<p>The manager saw that in a bad light. Guess I lacked team spirit as it were.