Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

once more businesses will go for the short term, quick fix, quick buck by making impossible demands of IT services and then not paying for the work when IT services can't deliver

so a company can say to their shareholders "oh we are busily developing project xyz and investing in the future even in the midst of this economic downturn"

followed six months later by "project xyz failed, but it wasn't our fault we were let down by our IT suppliers, on the plus side we aren't going to pay them so the money hasn't been wasted" or if it's an internal IT supplier "we've sacked them for incompetence so the wage bill has gone down and profits are up"

it's a way of marking time and waiting for the downturn to ease without actually appearing to be doing nothing, so the shareholders won't get upset