Comment Re:The essence of enterprise (Score 1) 148
Or it can be employed within a business between teams but only if there is no possibility of their influencing the other team's success, because you should want both teams to succeed.
What I want in this hypothetical scenario is to have the best possible product, and if there are two competing means of achieving the goal I might well choose to explore both of them. And the two ideas are competing, so no matter how much pretty language you dress the idea up in, the two teams will be competing. The important thing is to not see a lack of selection as failure, but as an exploration of an idea which didn't pan out but about which you now have more information. Either you'll have an idea of a scenario where it does make sense, or you'll know why it doesn't make sense and you won't waste time exploring it more completely — perhaps in a finished product which would suffer for it.
Or, maybe it wouldn't make sense to divide your resources like that. It'll depend on your situation. But that's a better use of employees you'll need again one day than firing them and hoping you'll be able to replace them with another unit.