I have worked for large corporations for quite a long time now. I am now learning about making large systems... The more I look at the complexity of creation and development, the more I realise that size matters, and not in the good way.
Larger is not better, growth is not the equivalent of progress. Corporations are learning this the hard way, society even in a harder one. When does this ambicion for getting larger and larger comes from? At what point the weight of management, whether people, software, processes, overrides any kind of benefits from being part of a large more impactful part?
Large corporations are getting it wrong. They are accepting that overhead is unavoidable... That is not very far from the civil servant attitude towards public work. The process justifies the people and the people justify themselves on the process, clearly inneficient and not leading to any progress at all.
Can we run systems in smaller better interconnected ways instead of aiming at becoming the head of a super large group so that our salary/compensation/profits are aimed at being proportional to the structure beneath us?
I do not have an answer. However the current model is failing and we'd better start experimenting with other ways before everything completely collapses. Maybe forcing splitting in manageable units was not such a bad thing after all?
Larger is not better, growth is not the equivalent of progress. Corporations are learning this the hard way, society even in a harder one. When does this ambicion for getting larger and larger comes from? At what point the weight of management, whether people, software, processes, overrides any kind of benefits from being part of a large more impactful part?
Large corporations are getting it wrong. They are accepting that overhead is unavoidable... That is not very far from the civil servant attitude towards public work. The process justifies the people and the people justify themselves on the process, clearly inneficient and not leading to any progress at all.
Can we run systems in smaller better interconnected ways instead of aiming at becoming the head of a super large group so that our salary/compensation/profits are aimed at being proportional to the structure beneath us?
I do not have an answer. However the current model is failing and we'd better start experimenting with other ways before everything completely collapses. Maybe forcing splitting in manageable units was not such a bad thing after all?
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