We keep reinventing the wheel

By
Mukund Kabra

When teams say "We keep reinventing the wheel", it usually means the system that should drive decisions is unclear or untrusted. Create a repeatable test system: clear hypotheses, fast cycles, and a shared learning log that changes what you ship next.

Category:
Experimentation
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Published on:
January 24, 2026

We keep reinventing the wheel

Problem is that growth happens faster than institutional learning. There's no system to capture what works, codify it, and scale it. Every initiative gets treated like a unique event instead of part of an evolving playbook. High-performing companies don't win because they have better ideas, they win because they reuse and refine them. Consistency compounds. Reinvention drains it.

Problem

If you keep reinventing the wheel, you lose the ability to make confident tradeoffs. You end up optimizing what is measurable, not what is meaningful, which quietly pushes spend and effort into the wrong places. The cost is not just reporting confusion. It is slow decisions, misaligned priorities, and growth bets that are impossible to prove or kill. Without trusted instrumentation, you cannot separate a real signal from noise, so the safest choice becomes doing nothing or doing more of the same. Until this is fixed, every improvement will feel slower than it should.

Insight

Reinventing the wheel isn't a creativity issue, it's a systems issue. Most teams don't lack solutions, they lack memory. Knowledge lives in people, not processes, so when context shifts or team members move, progress evaporates. The deeper

How Velocity Approaches It

We help teams turn repeat effort into repeatable advantage. Velocity starts by auditing how your organization captures, shares, and applies knowledge across marketing, product, and growth. Then we design the systems, documentation, rituals, and feedback loops, that make learning automatic and accessible. We build playbooks where the best experiments, campaigns, and frameworks become assets, not memories. The goal isn't to slow you down with process, it's to speed you up with structure. If you're tired of solving the same problems twice, we'll help you build a system where progress actually compounds.

Tags:  
Learning Velocity; Feedback Loops; Experiment Cadence; Insight Speed; Knowledge Transfer; cross-team Learning

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