But the investigation by a House Science and Technology subcommittee found it crippled by serious design flaws, management blunders and runaway contractors.
The past decade has by many accounts been an era of grand ambition, flawed management and wasted treasure for all the military branches.
And it is a crucial test for a papacy that many Vatican observers say has a deep internal flaw: its management.
Ultimately, Feynman's detective work arrived at this: Rocket booster design flaw + management failure + cold weather = disaster.
If this letter is deficient, it may point to a flaw in management's ability to disclose the information most critical to shareholders.
The toxic ingredients that led to that Wall Street firm's implosion are abundant in the Gulf of Mexico disaster: flawed risk management, systemic hazard and regulatory incompetence.
The two catastrophes of the space shuttle program — in 1986 and 2003, which killed 14 astronauts — had more to do with design flaws and management failures than with depleted ranks of experts.
Full implementation of Universal Credit – which unifies multiple benefits into one payment – is not expected until 2021, after delays caused by IT design flaws and management failings.
As a defensive genius, he did exhibit certain flaws (clock management, personnel choices, sticking to players past their expiration date etc).
And Tuft's Amar Bhidé's recent "A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy" touches on many aspects of this critique, but looks at it more from an organizational perspective: How rational expectations and efficient markets became embodied in deeply flawed risk management techniques like the Black-Scholes options-pricing model and value-at-risk tools.
Participants believed that flaws in management styles at different levels contributed to conflict and its ineffective resolution.
