Playing board games and driving cars are tasks performed by individual humans with fast decision cycles. The open agency model, however, fits best when equivalent human tasks (building a factory, deploying a communication system, developing a drug) call for multiple skills and technologies coordinated over time. The structure of tasks and accountability relationships speaks against merging exploratory planning, strategic decision-making, project management, task performance, reporting, and auditing into a single opaque process. The costs would be high, and any gains in simplicity would be illusory.
I’m not sure whether I’m understanding this paragraph correctly. My reading is that here you are arguing that while Open Agencies involve a lot of coordination work that would be prohibitively expensive for fast bounded tasks, the current existence of other tasks which do involve similar amounts of coordination work implies that it would not be prohibitively expensive for other tasks.
I’m not sure whether I’m understanding this paragraph correctly. My reading is that here you are arguing that while Open Agencies involve a lot of coordination work that would be prohibitively expensive for fast bounded tasks, the current existence of other tasks which do involve similar amounts of coordination work implies that it would not be prohibitively expensive for other tasks.