july

Coordination of disparate elements requires a level of autonomy, to make decisions that are best for their cohort. 

Centralized command doesn’t quite work all the time, synchronized command doesn’t work all the time. 

There’s a clarity around the mission that is generally required though I think? Or else it doesn’t work?

A shared mission is always good, if not necessary, but I think orgs with competing functions are pretty interesting

For example, the US Army commissioned two different aerospace manufacturers to design and build two competing helicopters, ultimately selecting only one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Vertical_Lift

For their watches, Seiko pits two separate factories against each other, with the competition resulting in dozens of watch designs:

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

A shared mission is always good, if not necessary, but I think orgs with competing functions are pretty interesting

For example, the US Army commissioned two different aerospace manufacturers to design and build two competing helicopters, ultimately selecting only one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Vertical_Lift

For their watches, Seiko pits two separate factories against each other, with the competition resulting in dozens of watch designs: https://www.everestbands.com/blogs/bezel-barrel/seiko-history-daini-vs-suwa-factories