[ncheek]

In addition to it being hard to rapidly change the face of business, these teams can be doomed to failure by virtue of the restrictive environment that they exist in - for example having to work within the sprawling policies of the business.

I had an opportunity to work in a small digital transformation project at one of these "big businesses". When they had me come in every day and do basically nothing for 2 weeks before they could check all the boxes to ship me an engineering computer, I got the first big glimpse of how big business bureaucracy can doom these sorts of lean teams to failure.