Only tangential related, but has anyone else witnessed a middle-managment as a resource approach to this kind of situations lately. Basically, slopy procedure is encouraged, middle-management is hired and instructed to keep cost low and the wagon rolling and beeing new, settles right into this trap of a routine.
Once the mess blows up (which it always does), upper management first trys to deflect damage to the lower ranks (as in the article), then regardless of the outcome of this tactics, replaces the middle-management with new faces. In this scenario, even lower tier management who insisted on correct procedure, complained and requested additional resources, would be replaced to prevent a culture of responsibility from growing.
The cycle of sloppyness starts a new but not with any significant changes, its basically a attempt to create a synthetic amnesia in a cooperate culture.