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Alternatively you misunderstood the business requirements and would have cost then a fortune on a failed project. Alternatively you were brought in by manageme
by gjjrfcbugxbhf 9y ago
Alternatively you misunderstood the business requirements and would have cost then a fortune on a failed project.
Alternatively you were brought in by management to make cost cutting recommendations - and your solution wasn't cheap enough.
Alternatively the company accounted for the enormous risk of the project succeeding but actually being worse than what they had in place.
You really don't know the politics of this.
Edit:
Another alternative is that your plan would have resulted in sufficient job losses that the company was worried that it would demotivate other employees and damage the company more than the cost savings.
- rattray 9y agoI upvoted your post because I think those alternatives are interesting to consider, but _you_ know far less about the politics of the situation than the OP. It's entirely possible that the OP was exactly correct, or close to correct. It's also quite likely that at least one of the factors you mentioned (or others) was also at play.
- GiorgioG 9y agoOP here - the director that brought me in was (and still is) a straight shooter. There's no question as to why I was brought in. While she had the support of the CIO, the rest of the directors spent more time protecting their kingdoms than trying to modernize their systems. Fortunately for both myself and the director, we moved on from that organization.