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I am looking for a proverb, quote or phrase describing the processes (or structures or ideas) which are supposed to bring in efficiency, enhance the gaps and increases in-efficiencies, but instead prove to be the reason for the decline of a system.

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Big external agencies were hired in order to define the efficient way to improve the system. However, these agencies do not understand the system and do all sorts of trial and error methods to innovate the process for years, yet not only do they waste company resources but are paid a ton of money so as to fix what can be done internally.

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  • Your example is rather an explanation.
    – fev
    Dec 30, 2020 at 13:03

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions? Is 'devil in diguise' too harsh? Neither of those are a great fit. Of course the Germans have a single word for it, but this is the 'English' stack exchange. Here it is in German, if that helps: Verschlimmbesserung.

That which protects, sometimes infects.

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  • "One of the Yiddish Lears cheekily advertised itself as originally by Shakespeare but now verbessert (improved)." Well intentioned? Audacious?
    – Yosef Baskin
    Jan 17, 2021 at 15:41
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"The cure is worse than the disease" might be what you're looking for.

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