Why Are Enterprises So Slow?
For me the #1 reason why they are slow is because everything requires consensus or maybe another way of putting it it&#x27;s hard for people to make a decision on their own.<p>Let&#x27;s say I want to change some part of the UI of some app. If I&#x27;m by myself I just change it. If I&#x27;m on a team first I have to convince whoever has the power to decide to change it to allow it to be changed, that might even be a whole committee. Then several people will be involved, likely a UX designer, possible a separate UI designer, all of which will have to discuss the feature and all of which also have other responsibilities.<p>The larger the company the worse this usually gets. Maybe the change has to be run by the security team to make sure the new UI is not a security issue. Maybe it has to run by the privacy team to make sure it&#x27;s not going to leak data. Maybe it has to be run by an inclusivity team to make sure it&#x27;s not offensive in some culture I&#x27;m not familiar with. Maybe it has to be run by a localization team to make sure it will work in every language.<p>All of those things add time. Maybe they are all required and good, especially at a large company with a global marketplace but they certainly add to the time taken to do something that a tiny team wouldn&#x27;t do.