The former was an innovator, the latter settled itself to lazily sit around and just imitate the work of the former and it has failed miserably thereby. It failed to first understand the innovation well and then adapt to its own given circumstances, it simply drove itself into a very dangerous trap, we were told.
In fact the Amhara PP has in this case confirmed the alleged "Convince and Confuse" method was meticulously applied against it. This is also what Prof. Messay Kebede has said in one of his EMS interviews, in effect.
It didn't even spend a tiny fraction of its time to analyse and understand the architectural makeup of the innovations it decided to imitate. A colossal failure.
It was only a matter of time to find itself in such an awkward situation it is in today. It only sponsored so far the killing of its own bright minds, like Ambaye Mokonnon, Girma Yeshitila and countless others.
Copy & Paste has its toll again on our people!
In fact BEADN was the favored first son of the father TPLF over OPDO, the younger brother has successfully beaten the elder brother here!1 By innovation, we have in mind the choice of a new product or service, production process, marketing strategy or organizational structure resulting in a different payoff to the firm. By imitation, we mean copying these same choices made by another firm, and thereby obtaining the same payoff as that firm.