I think all of it comes down to short-termism. All the “core competencies” and all that, all it drives to is optimizing for higher profit for the next quarter. And short-termism is built into the system, driven by the necessary competition for capital. I.e. if you need capital for some investment that takes 2 years to materialize but another firm offers better return 1 year from now, capital goes into the second. Run this in a loop over time and you get most firms optimizing for next quarter profts.

E: Why necessary - cause capital is prerequisite to any production, software, service, or hardware.

E2: I’ve thought MBAs are the bane of companies for most of my corporat life. These days I think that’s wrong. They follow the logic of the system and if one does not, they’re being replaced with one who does.

E3: I mean those phenomena you mention are absolutely behind the effects you say. All I’m saying the phenomena are all driven by the basic incentive structure of the system and are largely unescapable in traditional, non-unionized capitalist corpos.