Thinking Journal

Does specialization make action harder?

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One problem for a customer can span several teams in a growing company. Whether specialization helps explain why action stalls remains a hypothesis.

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The more specialized a company becomes, the less likely it is that one team can change every step a customer goes through. I wanted to find out how companies had assigned responsibility for the whole problem when each team was responsible for only part of it.