Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You set up the task force in your lab.
You try restructuring part of your lab to make room for the research being conducted on the agricultural chemical. You hire on a new staff person to look after the project.
It looks like you might pull it off. However, a few months into the project, the staff scientist reports that some of the research material has gone missing. It's a serious problem that could ruin the outcome of the project you are doing.
"How could something like this have happened?" you ask angrily.
"It was bound to happen," says the scientist. "It just wasn't organized in here. We couldn't do the EPA research without interfering with the other work going on in here."
You now have to face the EPA and tell them that you can't continue with the contract. That might end up costing you a fair bit of money.
"The key is that we, as an organization, had the expertise to pull something like this off," says developer Duane Ewing. "But we just didn't have the organization and infrastructure in place at the time."