Enterprise & corporate
Large enough that nobody can see the whole process any more.
Somewhere between the third acquisition and the fourth reorganisation, the map stopped matching the ground. Work moves through a chain of people who each know their own link and not the next one. We trace one chain end to end and give it back running itself.
What it usually looks like
- Cross-department handoffs that live in email
- Approval chains nobody can currently audit
- Reporting assembled by hand every Monday
- The internal tool three teams asked for and no one owns