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's hard for people to make a decision on their own.<p>Let's say I want to change some part of the UI of some app. If I'm by myself I just change it. If I'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's not going to leak data. Maybe it has to be run by an inclusivity team to make sure it's not offensive in some culture I'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't do.