Ask HN: What are your gripes with starting innovative projects in your company?

Lots of businesses try to encourage their employees to be entrepreneurial to find new revenue streams and/or reduce costs. I imagine that part of why HN readers are interesting in starting their own businesses is that there are significant issues within their corporate company regarding starting new initiatives.

A personal example is working in a Product team for the first time (with an offshore development team), is that because we don't have as close of a relationship with our developers we can't prototype very easily. An onshore developer may have been able to build a MVP alongside their allocated sprint work off a short conversation. However, with the offshore scrum model developers can't be assigned work unless it is associated with a card. This means product needs to do more upfront work which leads to sunk cost fallacy (lots of businesses are afraid to write code and then say it won't be used.)

Do you experience any organisational issues which stop you from innovating in your workplace?