Originally Posted by
Rheinstorff
No, I think you’re making too simplistic a comparison. The differences between any public and commercial enterprise in the UK is huge. HMG as sole customer and shareholder, vastly complex HMT imposed policies around procurement, employment, use of and accounting for money. These are just not replicated to anything like the same scale or degree, where they exist at all.
Base your analysis on the world as it is, not as you would wish it to be.
Not really, Northrop Grumman has circa 120,000 employees and 4 Divisions over numerous geographical locations worldwide. It's a vastly complex business and easily on a scale similar to HM Armed Forces. However, there's only one Corporate structure and turns a pretty profit. There are those who get on with it and see through the trees to the solution, and there are those who make excuses because they know no better and because it's always been done that way.
(ps my analysis is based on the real world I live in, the private sector)