(05-02-2020, 08:46 AM)Qwert Wrote: I had an idea for a different kind of split. What if we didn't create more ministries, but instead implemented a matrix management approach instead? We would form what could be called "public utilities" which would be "competence pools", headed by professionals. The public utilities would produce stuff for all ministries, like logos, event planning, staffing, news and guides, leaving more like policy making responsibilities and core competence for the ministries, that shouldn't be pooled (like the SPSF or embassies).

The public utilities would provide staff/consultancy for (temporary) teams, that are formed to perform specific tasks as requested by elected officials. Possible benefits would be a reduction of complexity of the current MoRA, increase accountability for those "producing", and hopefully make tighter teams. It would also make competence currently found in MoRA available to the other ministries. A possible drawback that comes to mind would be that we would have even more Discord servers, and possibly conflicts if a head of a public utility would disagree with a minister (now these heads are selected by the minister, but this wouldn't be the case with the proposed matrix management approach).

The public utilities would run independent projects, like news or (some rendition of) the University.

I made a quick illustration of what I'm thinking (it's not meant to be complete or all-encompassing). Basically we would have a split along a line between policy making and "production":

(Don't mind the greyed-out ministries, these would be for another discussion)

What do other people think of this? I know there was some talk previously of making media something like an independent body with an appointed Editor in Chief.