- lack of clear communication/direction from senior leadership
- workforce is under resourced which means unnecessarily heavy workloads for many members of staff
- lack of investment in change management... No BA/PM/training and development team to help manage and implement new ways of working
- slow decision making process
- horribly inadequate IT systems
- not enough focus on the long term and fixing underlying issues... Constant fire-fighting which wastes a lot of people's time and ultimately causes the business to lose money due to inefficiencies
- workplace politics... rather than focusing on highlighting issues to senior mgt that require action and looking to resolve these, focus is on massaging language etc