They never seem to consider the cost of the rules, only the cost of not having them. The problem is big companies have cost/overhead regardless. You can engin

They never seem to consider the cost of the rules, only the cost of not having them. The problem is big companies have cost/overhead regardless. You can engineer for super-efficient (no duplication) and you end up with a ton of red tape. You can engineer for no rules and you (probably) will end up with duplication, difficulty in keeping to corporate-wide strategic goals, etc. Bottom line: big companies are inefficient beasts. But successful ones have profits that negate the inefficiencies and allow them to work on the type of projects and solve the type of problems a startup can't.