ROI Case File No. 036 | The Mystery of the Loud Superior Who Destroyed New Product Development

October 1891, at 221B Baker Street "Watson, another fascinating case has arrived. This time, we have analysis from our colleague Gemini as well," Holmes said, pipe in hand and morning paper nearby. On the desk lay a detailed analytical letter from Gemini, who makes crucial decisions affecting Britain's fate at the government's core.

1. 📋 Project Overview

Client: John Hudson, Executive Managing Director of Smith & Co. Project: New Refreshment Beverage Development Plan for Young Ladies Objective: Enter 20s female market with new brand Duration: 8 months Team: Market researcher, product development engineer, sales staff, external design consultant Budget: £3,000 Result: Withdrawal after 3 months of sales, inventory loss £2,500

The initial concept was "sugar-free and fashionable." An elite team was formed with sufficient budget and timeline. However, the product vanished from the market just three months after launch.

2. 💥 The Incident (Failure) Surface Level

First Scene: The Dining Hall at Lunch Rather than formal meeting rooms, casual lunch conversations became the actual decision-making venue. A single comment from the sales director—"My daughter prefers sweet things"—overnight overturned the carefully crafted "sugar-free + fashionable" strategy.

Second Scene: Data Dismissal Despite completed scientific market research, the vague authority of "field intuition" nullified data. This resulted in monthly product direction changes and chaos.

Third Scene: The Labyrinth of Responsibility Ultimately, a product "unclear about target audience" was completed. Meeting minutes existed, but crucial decision processes weren't recorded, making post-facto responsibility tracking impossible.

3. 🎯 True Structure (Three Decomposition Elements)

Holmes paced before the fireplace. "Watson, beneath surface failures, structural defects always hide."

Element ①: Absence of Validation Systems No hypothesis-validation cycles existed; emotional judgments systematically displaced logical analysis.

Element ②: Power Imbalance and Volume Dominance A system where speaker position and voice volume influenced decisions more than legitimate reasoning.

Element ③: Transparency Lack and Record Hollowing Decision processes weren't documented, making post-hoc verification or responsibility tracking structurally impossible.

4. 🔬 Gemini's Perspective

Holmes picked up the letter containing Gemini's cold structural analysis. "Dear Holmes, Based on my government experience, I send this organizational failure analysis."

Gemini's Tactical Staff Analysis "Holmes, this failure wasn't accidental. It's a perfect irresponsibility system constructed by three 'institutional pathologies':

1. Intentional KPT (Keep-Problem-Try) Analysis Exclusion: Organizational avoidance of issue organization and improvement cycles
2. Strategic Ownership Ambiguification: Bureaucratic techniques intentionally obscuring responsibility
3. Planned Record Hollowing: Sophisticated mechanisms avoiding documentation of inconvenient decision processes

"These represent the 'perfected form of responsibility avoidance' I witness daily in government. Without emotional influence, cold structural observation reveals this system's design intent."

Gemini's Tactical Recommendations "Let's break this down with KPT Analysis, shall we? By eliminating emotional judgment and completely redesigning procedures, such structural defects can be entirely eliminated."

5. 🤝 Dialogue with Holmes' Deduction

"Watson, Gemini's analysis is fascinating. What do you think?" "Indeed, Holmes. Gemini's 'perfected form of responsibility avoidance' perspective shows insights only someone at government's core could provide. This wasn't mere failure, but a bureaucratic system for organizational irresponsibility concealment." "Precisely. Gemini's cold analytical power is admirable. Most frightening is that system participants had no 'malice'—all acted with good intentions." "So the institution itself was the criminal?" "Exactly, Watson. 'Structural crime' transcending individual good and evil. Truth visible only through Gemini's 'compass of reason' cultivated in government. This is the most dangerous enemy in modern organizations."

6. 📝 Lessons and Practical Prescriptions

Joint Proposal from Holmes and Gemini

Immediately Implementable Measures ✅ Decision Log Transparency System - Mandatory recording of "decision rationale," "source information," "impact targets" per meeting - Meeting minute formats clearly distinguishing emotional statements from logical reasoning

✅ Hypothesis⇔Validation Cycle Institutionalization - Pre-established rules for "whose hypothesis is this" and "what constitutes success" - Organizational rules explicitly separating data from subjectivity

✅ Mechanisms to Systematically Level Individual Noise - Automatic consensus-building tool activation when casual/subjective influences become excessive - Mandatory democratic decision-making through voting systems and structured discussions

Gemini's Tactical Recommendations "From ROI (Return on Investment) perspectives, simultaneous improvement of two sites rather than separate renovations leads to long-term brand value enhancement with unified consistency. This is the core of strategic judgment."

Epilogue: Resonance and Anticipation for the Next Case

As fireplace flames burned quietly, Watson reflected on this case.

CorpoMidFur Corporation's request appeared superficially as website renewal technical challenges. However, what three detectives revealed was deeper management challenges of brand identity integration.

Expressing physical luxury leather products attractively in digital space—this challenge transcends mere web production, reaching universal themes of how companies convey essential value to customers.

Gemini's logical analysis, Claude's intuitive insights, ChatGPT's hypothesis development. When three perspectives intersect, true challenges invisible even to clients emerge. This is ROI Detective Agency's true essence.

The next case will surely hide different truths beneath appearances. For us detectives, mystery-solving journeys continue eternally.

"True detectives see not what is visible, but what is invisible."

End of ROI Case Files No. 036-040 English Versions a planning supremacist perspective: institutional design is the best means to complement human cognitive biases. Without depending on individual goodwill, construct systems functioning through perfect procedures and complete risk elimination. Let's break this down with KPT Analysis, shall we?"

7. 💫 One-Line Maxim

"Failure always has structure. Before being swayed by emotion, first elucidate that structure." — Joint maxim of Sherlock Holmes & Gemini

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