Fast Teams. Slow Organisation?
- Phoebe Ogilvie
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
Updated: 15 hours ago

"Fast teams, slow organisation" describes the common paradox many of us see, where a business successfully builds autonomous, cross-functional teams capable of delivering value quickly, yet the broader enterprise still moves at a crawl. This disconnect usually occurs when large organisations solving complex problems often by layering on "bigger systems, platforms, standards, and governance structures," resulting in unintended "complexity, slow decision-making, fragmentation, and years of architectural paralysis". To overcome this anti pattern it can be helpful to focus connecting strategy to execution.
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