How could an ordinary organization deliver the Collins project?
1."Organizations, like connectionist networks, have outputs. Strategic-level managers formulate the organization’s interpretation. When one speaks of organizational interpretation one really means interpretation by a relatively small group at the top of the organizational hierarchy…. Upper managers bring together and interpret information for the system as a whole".
"Organizational information processing, as in connectionist nets, is feed-forward. Many participants may play some part in scanning or data processing, but the point at which information converges and is interpreted for organizational level action is assumed to be at the top manager level.
… Below the vice presidential level, participants are not informed on issues pertaining to the organization as a whole.
"The emergent organization: communication as its site and surface", by James R. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every.
2/So Taylor and Van Every say that "Below the vice presidential level, participants are not informed on issues pertaining to the organization as a whole"
3/Admiral-to-be Briggs would certainly have ensured that legacy CAI (computer aided instruction) automated tools exist. Because then "delivering Collins" reduces to running the legacy tools interoperably with the Collins system as it is being bolted together, as it were.
4/Everyone in the organization needs to be aware of the necessity to run those CAI tools (or their equivalent, if someone has come up with some equivalent)
5/Talor and Van Every assure us that only at or above vice presidential level will participants be informed, informed for example about the fact that CAI automated tools, or their equivalent, are necessary and sufficient in order to deliver on the big job viz. Collins.
6/ An organization, in order to be able to deliver on the big job viz. Collins would need to have been
spelt out in the Collins contract.
7/As soon as we hear from the organization itself that there are problems, it is safe to infer that "blueprints", produced subsequent to contract signing, were locked away and ignored.
8/Instead of running the program as per the contract, it becomes obvious that an "ordinary organization" was set up to take over the running of the program. This organization would have been destined to fail.
They couldn’t and thats just the problem, although essentially it should have been possible 
They could deliver it using a US Postal Service Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope, which an ordinary organization could afford because its only $4.80 regardless of how little or how much you stuffed into it.
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They couldn’t and thats just the problem, although essentially it should have been possible
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