The value of a process isn't in managing the brilliant people. If they're brilliant, they probably don't really need the process. They'll have developed a system on their own that works. The value of a process is to provide a guidebook for the average or sub-average employee who either doesn't care enough to manage their production, or isn't cognizant of how to do it. A brilliant process will force relative incompetents to function on a level of basic competence where at least they aren't costing the company more than they produce. A broken process, however, will drag even the brilliant people down to inefficiency.