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Originally Posted by theducks
Management 
Ever try and get the 'Higher ups' to sign off on a product (development)?
1977, I tried to get Fairchild (my employer at the time) to make a digital volume/balance control chip to replace the ganged (fraught with tracking problems), resistive potentiometer level controls found on consumer audio devices. No Go. 
Try and find a device today that does NOT use this digital function (the knob you see, may just operate an up/down interrupter)
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I usually see it the other way around. In many European countries engineers run the show. And they never want to change. We had those expensive but extremely limited control panels for machinery (small screen, little memory, no expansion possibilities, limited language display capabilities, difficult to get replacements, etc.) while the competition started to use laptops 10 years ago. Just one example of many. They still haven't changed until this day -- but finally they seem to wise up. After they went through chapter 11 (again!). The engineers though of something (completely removed from any knowledge of what the customers really wanted or needed), designed a much too expensive product and then told the salesmen "you are too stupid to explain it".