I don't know if it's so much that information technology is bad at reducing bureaucracy. I think it just hasn't been applied to the same degree. In my former li

I don't know if it's so much that information technology is bad at reducing bureaucracy. I think it just hasn't been applied to the same degree. In my former life as a manufacturing engineer, every company I worked for focused on making manufacturing more efficient, but few focused on improving the efficiency of indirect labor. The ones that were efficient with indirect labor divided labor into core product teams that handled all operations from procurement to shipping. The ones that split the responsibilities into specialized departments typically added layers of overhead and bureaucracy to the organization.