MBA solution to a corporate culture disease

Having a review step after the fact is worthless because at that point the investment has already been lost.

The problem is that for the last 40 years the primary focus is on increasing profits by reducing quality and cutting labor. When I saw the parts described on the news it was obvious that the switch had been designed within barely acceptable tolerances instead of being overengineered to reduce potential failures.

Exactly the same as is happening in just about all of the products we have available today. Ref: crappification.

This is a systemic problem that this CEO is facing...then again, perhaps she is a result of that same corporate attitude. I have no doubt that there is probably someone much more competent than she but in the face of the exploding pay in the corporate board world the truly competent cannot be afforded. Then again, the truly competent wouldn't accept the environment.

Long ago the CEO might have faced a labor force that would refuse to produce a shoddy product. Outsourcing sure eliminated that conflict.