When I worked at a financial services company we constantly had to find uses for whatever tech the CIO had bought without our input, yet really had no use for.

When I worked at a financial services company we constantly had to find uses for whatever tech the CIO had bought without our input, yet really had no use for. Inevitably there would be an article on the company's website by him about how wonderful the tech was and how it was making everything easier. We suspected (and later were proved right) he was getting massive kickbacks. Long after I left he was walked out the door when a new CEO was hired.