Sorry but no. What you see in corporate environments has nothing to do with risk management or product delivery, it’s often just pure ineptitude and useless people artificially trying to justify their existence.
Few people are out there actively misleading stakeholders about why they're important. If that was the case, businesses would be rushing to fix that problem. What you're seeing is simply overly complex, highly inefficient product delivery pipelines, which have been grandfathered in, and would be too expensive and too risky to fix. So companies continue chugging along as long as the line goes up.
Oh I didn’t intend to do so, that’s what I meant with ineptitude.
The fact is, most of the people on the corporate world just don't need to be there. They add nothing and slow things down.
I suspect (and hope) this will continue for as long as I remain introspective and willing to learn and grow.
I feel like this is one of those things that only time and the perspective it adds can teach you.
In my experience, that would be a company that spends hours in security committee meetings and then fails to react appropriately in an actual emergency.
I actually couldn’t see it as well when I was younger and understood less.