The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

Recent news showed the impact that bureaucracy can have - people dying and a company probably facing tons of lawsuits plus the costs of recalling millions of cars that could have been fixed years ago as they were manufactured.. Bureaucracy is great for action within defined standards and acceptable variances - here it is very efficient. Let a situation arise outside of "normal" and it falls apart.

At the heart of General Motors Co. (GM)’s slow response to fatally flawed ignition switches is a committee culture that impeded the flow of information from the engineering ranks to the corner office.
The company began investigating reports of faulty switches in 2004. Yet GM’s top executives didn't learn of the situation until “a few weeks ago,” she wrote March 4. Company documents show that during that period, multiple layers of engineers and corporate committees analyzed and failed to fix a flaw that led to the deaths of 13 people.

bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-11/gm-recalls-stalled-in-10-years-of-committee-alphabet-soup.html