That pamphlet is wild. It reads as really paranoid, but I totally agree with it. It seems like Delphi isn't at all resilient to being run by bad intentioned people. This make it terrible for something like setting public policy.
It doesn't make it worthless, though. If you had a 20 person company where ownership was legitimately interested in getting the best answer to the problem, maybe this is an efficient way of doing that.
I got a kick out of the sensational tone. I’ve seen this pattern at many public meetings for spending road improvement budgets and the like. There certainly is no deviation from the plan based on anything that happens in these meetings. However, the participation by the lower level facilitators is more fairly described as work-a-day rather than malicious.
This is pretty funny. It sounds like some governing bodies the author of this document is familiar with have inappropriately used this forecasting procedure as a governance procedure. This is totally something I can imagine some bright-eyed local politics midwit doing.
