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If you have problem-solving teams instead of solution-providing teams, ultimately your problem-solving teams will reimplement the same solution multiple times, each time for their individual problem, for the overlapping parts of the solution to their problems.

Whether your organization can tolerate that kind of duplication largely depends on your organization and what kind of problems it needs to solve. Sometimes that kind of duplication presents governance problems which are unacceptable within a given regulatory environment. Other times, both implementations reach customers, and your customers are wondering why they need separate accounts for each of the company's products and why there isn't a unified UI across the company's products being driven by the company's brand.

It's important for organizations not to dismiss duplication out of hand as a form of waste, but it's also important to have a handle on what kind of duplication is going on to make sure that it doesn't conflict with the company's responsibilities or mission.