> It's hard for a big company from a predominantly nontech environment to suddenly catch up to an agile tech company years ahead in R&D and HR.
In the same way it should be hard for the "agile tech" companies to play in a highly regulated and, I would say, high responsibility market. F*cking up with your users when they are watching cat videos isn't quite the same than doing it when their health is at stake.
I don't think we (tech industry) are fast because we're "years ahead in R&D and HR", nor because we're "agile". We are fast because we are reckless and we completely overlook many, many factors (and many of them, scientifically relevant and known). Look at how the Soylent guys claim their meals are nutritionally complete. Were they able to do this because they were "agile" and "years ahead" than other companies that already play in that field? No: they are able to say (not "do") this because they're highly overlooking what nutritionally complete means - mostly, overlooking the fact that we don't know yet what exactly "nutritionally complete" means.
In the same way it should be hard for the "agile tech" companies to play in a highly regulated and, I would say, high responsibility market. F*cking up with your users when they are watching cat videos isn't quite the same than doing it when their health is at stake.
I don't think we (tech industry) are fast because we're "years ahead in R&D and HR", nor because we're "agile". We are fast because we are reckless and we completely overlook many, many factors (and many of them, scientifically relevant and known). Look at how the Soylent guys claim their meals are nutritionally complete. Were they able to do this because they were "agile" and "years ahead" than other companies that already play in that field? No: they are able to say (not "do") this because they're highly overlooking what nutritionally complete means - mostly, overlooking the fact that we don't know yet what exactly "nutritionally complete" means.