When Abundance Kills Innovation (and ROI).
Stacks keep growing; new SaaS, new AI copilots, and new dashboards are added to “accelerate innovation.” In reality, every extra tool without a clear purpose adds more logins, more data silos, more process friction, and more work for the same outcome.
When every team picks its own tool, you don’t get flexibility, you get fragmentation. Workflows break between departments. Leaders lose a single view of performance and spend more time reconciling systems than making decisions.
The real leverage isn’t “one more platform.” It’s a sharp vision of the problems you’re solving, ruthless prioritization of the few tools that matter, and workflows designed around outcomes, not features. Fewer systems, better integrated, used deeply by the right teams, will always beat a bloated stack nobody fully controls.
Ultimately, technology doesn’t create clarity; leadership does. Tools amplify whatever system you already have in place.
