Take the project office, for example. I recently interviewed my CEO about this topic for our sister publication, the Project Management Best Practices Report. Assessing project manager competency is likewise a function of the PO, and linked to the maturity level of the organization, since individual and organizational competency feed off each other. Then there's the seemingly simple act of buying software. You wouldn't think something you can buy in a box would come trailing clouds of complexity, but there you have it.
Nothing is simple anymore, seems to be the theme.
Where once we blissfully separated things into neat little boxes, now everything seems to be interdependent, interconnected. Stephen Covey made millions pointing this out to us a few years ago. Then consultants started running around talking about some butterfly in the Amazon that just caused your hard drive to crash, among other things. Well, to put it bluntly, nothing. At least, nothing that hasn't been there all along.