Fox.
The MBA brigade ( now increasingly being tumbled) , plus HR "practitioners' ( tumbled years ago ) , plus lap dog Accountants ( 6 months ahead only in vision , with eyes to the City) , plus a "Business Model" fable (good for the GMD in his annual report to blow smoke over the share holders ) seem still to constitute a mutually supporting and non-productive, clique of dominance in some quarters of industry.
Plus of course the employment, at great cost, of teams of "management consultants" ( also infected as above ) as part and parcel of the abrogation of responsibility and accountability to the responsibilities incumbent upon competent management
And all of the above constructs are usually peopled by individuals apparently considering themselves far too important to bother with , or to be qualified in or know anything about the real market requirements , technical personnel skills , design or manufacturing implications and applications for the products involved:other perceived qualifications seeming to be more important.
One certain GMD of a quite large blue chip company group I worked for was either the youngest RN Captain ( of a Corvette) on D-day, or the youngest RAF pilot Captain on the Berlin Airlift -- depending on the ( captive) audience in his presence. It transpired that he was also the only Member of the IEEE who had never heard of him. That Group,not surprisingly, collapsed in due course.
" If you have nine women, you can make a baby in a month".