Making it complicated..

It is very easy to make things difficult but very difficult to make things easy.

As a result we see that many service are not the least user-friendly - not in design - not in language - too complicated - a no-brainer.

The business environment is also  getting fiendishly complicated as technology offers so many new alternatives with so many new hypecurves popping up. Management is in place for controlling - not so much for innovating and the answer is often new control methods and more reporting - threatening to increase the drowning feeling as illustrated by Dilbert:

What is then the answer - how can large organizations become more agile instead of less? Not easy - but trust managers more is a must and networking with smaller enterprises an interesting alternative that deserves more efforts.