Basically Google's Bell Labs, this will be a long term mistake.

Though, it is a typical McKinsey style consultcult HBS MBA-itis and Chicago thinking style though, gut R&D, the value creation center of your company in favor of value extraction only.

Sadly Google CEO Sundar Pichai went to Wharton and worked at McKinsey. Two massive HBS MBA-itis red flags. He does have some history on the good products at Google but something has happened and systems he thrived in for innovation are now being closed off.

Probably pushed the bureaucracy that is slowing productivity.

Bring back 20% time, where most good Google products were made. Simplicity is less management and less "sprints".

Agile was supposed to give developers/creatives more time, but it turned into an excessively shallow micromanagement consultcult tool with too much weight around it, so now everyone is in the critical path emergency all the time, closed mode over open mode all the time. The new form of "agile" is "a-gee-lay" like the misunderstanding that the Dad in Christmas Story had when he saw "fragile" and thought it was "fra-gee-lay". Micromanagement is how to kill innovation in one easy step, even better if you tell them the system of micromanagement is to "help" them "simplify". This new "agile" is EDD, Emergency Driven Development all day and night. Why even try to do things if you have so much weight to move and so many layers of approval? Remember, the creator of Agile said "Agile is dead" in 2015, but long live agility. Agility is what the McKinsey "agile" (a cult) has killed. Get out of the way management and let the people play in their labs. That is where innovation comes from and always has. AT&T labs back in the day even knew this. Early internet and app/game dev knew this. It was in control/power by the creators/developers and then value was created. The value extractors want to try to extract value before value is created.

Never ever trust those from Wharton... Trumps, Musks, Milner, John Sculley that nearly broke Apple, Warren Buffett, CEOs of many sketch companies like Comcast etc.

The finance/business has all the power over creatives/product/developers now. Until that changes they will be listing.

Google is in their John Sculley and Steve Ballmer moment.