Weak senior leadership. Very bureaucratic. Focused on generating processes and procedures rather than on meaningful action. Slow decision making. Paralysis by analysis. Comments to leadership are in reference to non-US based leaders. The same innovation referenced in best reasons can also be a hindrance when we go overboard to gold plate a project when something simpler may have sufficed.
IT and HR are horrible. IT extremely fearful of new ideas and way behind and HR is clueless. IT decisions appear to be based exclusively on cost of maintaing system/software and not on value to end-users. This results in tools being rolled out with features rendered shut down. This reduces the cost of support. But that is only because so many features have been shut down or configuration is so convoluted that the software is practically unusable. So, obviously support costs are down because no one is using the software.
Greater offshoring of jobs, especially at the lower levels but also review of moving jobs at the next level. The problem with that model is that if you don't have entry level jobs in the US, what happens to the jobs pipeline? Where will the people for the next level jobs come from?
