When a company works you don't hear about it. You just see their success, or maybe you don't since there's more to success than sound process. You always hear the bad and the ugly.

The software industry is plagued by managers without domain knowledge, people faking it till they make it and immature processes. I think this is probably the main reason you have had such a tough time all these years.

I think process definitely helps mitigate these things but you also need reasonable human beings at the helm. If a 2 week development cycle is not fast enough for you, then you have some serious problems.