How do you reverse committee-based decision making in scaling orgs?

Question

As an organization grows, new stakeholders tack on additional processes to account for secondary concerns. When it comes to cross-team decision making, the decision maker is no longer anyone in the group but instead an executive with little context. As a result, I see "committees" being formed where the executive delegates the responsibility to a group of subject matter experts, who can advise and green light projects. This has been a huge bureaucratic bottleneck at the company, and reduces the accountability individuals have to make sure things get done or implemented.What are some solutions you've seen implemented (at companies that have >250 engineers) to minimize the amount of "death by committee" decision-making an organization does?

teledyn · Accepted Answer

"When deciding by committee Here's a useful rule of thumb: Talents make a difference, And follies make a sum!"- Piet Hein, "Grooks"

al_borland · Answer

The solutions I&rsquo;ve seen haven&rsquo;t solved anything, but rather created additional layers of bureaucracy.

How do you reverse committee-based decision making in scaling orgs?

"When deciding by committee Here's a useful rule of thumb: Talents make a difference, And follies make a sum!"
- Piet Hein, "Grooks"

The solutions I’ve seen haven’t solved anything, but rather created additional layers of bureaucracy.