Someone could take ownership of the project and make decisions instead of letting a monkey run around.
The problem here is how the work is divided, with everybody disempowered and turned into helpless cogs. If the goal was to prohibit any kind of improvement, they wouldn't make such a perfect attempt... And yet, that's the "normal" way to organize software development.
What fixes that problem is delegating the authority over team-sized problems to the teams, and structuring the organization so that larger issues are all contained over the equally sized management structures.
And despite management books all preaching that kind of organization, almost nobody does it in practice. A few problem-oriented organizations get the large structure right, but nobody at all gets the fine-grained delegation.
One profile that fits here is a generalist and/or program manager who had strong experience and skills in a specific field (e.g. developing software). The generalist can talk about sales, marketing, operations, and business and match with real experience. He/she knows how to move the ball forward.
Ownership alone only provides illusions.
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