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===Diffusion of responsibility=== | |||
Any homeowner who has had substantial work done to their property well instinctively understand the peril of siloisation. There are at least three subject matter experts involved: and architect, a project manager and the builder and its subcontractors (being in a contractual chain, the builder and subcontractors do not count as separate silos. This demonstrates one putative superpower of the contractual chain of delegation: it does not — well, ''need not'' — diffuse responsibility). | |||
Imagine for a minute that the building project does not go well. The architect will blame the project manager full stop the project manager will blame the builder. The builder will blame the architect. You, the customer, no two things: firstly, that at least one person has buggered up; secondly, that it was not you. However, the expertise required to diagnose fault lies with the three professionals, who, each being self interested, seem unable to reach consensus on responsibility. Each will find fault with the other two. | |||
In all likelihood, ''everyone'' is somewhat at fault, but this just makes the job of allocating fault between the three of them even harder. And no appeal even to simple balance of probabilities help: expected loss theory tells us that each of the three parties is one third likely to have been responsible. | |||
The best example of siloised responsibility dodging is the disaster that was the construction of berlin's Wili Brandt airport: a decision to split responsibility seven ways and, when that didn't work, to further split it into 21 different sections created a multi decadal chaos. The airport was 10 years late and came in €4bn over budget.</ref>[https://open.spotify.com/show/1dcDdTZgwicbxkb7OgNLo2?si=GJGHrohXSA-QlszWYclqJQ Hilarious podcast] about it. <ref> | |||
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