I believe that this is what the "digital transformation" is about, for real. I'm not even joking. Only a wealthy company can spend $400.000.000 on an SAP proje

I believe that this is what the "digital transformation" is about, for real. I'm not even joking. Only a wealthy company can spend $400.000.000 on an SAP project, for example, but in reality it would probably be better for the business long term, to build something custom and embrace the fact that IT & tech is important to achieve its goals. If it's not, why spend the money? Doing it right probably means creating a "software factory" or tech hub within or outside of the company. If we're talking a company with muscle and will to plow down $100s of millions on a massive tech/automation project, this should be feasible right? For an example, see Lufthansas tech initiative: https://lh-innovationhub.de https://lh-innovationhub.de (I'm not in any way affiliated to LH, I just happened to read about it a while back, while trying to convince my then CEO that something like that probably would be better that spending millions on proper crap from 3rd party) I'm sure there's many other examples. Traditionally, the problem is that with money comes politics. Everyone wants a piece of this pie, and a lot of non-tech/dev employees are used to turning to vendors. The thing is, what you want to achieve is a cultural change, not simply an organisational update (which is why, in the LH case, the tech hub is not located at LH HQ. It is not a cultural match, according to the CEO). Does this change even require money, except salaries for the "right people"? Big business have done IT & tech a huge disservice by outsourcing and off-shoring things not considered "core business", such as tech & coding. The pendulum is swinging, at least in my experience, and suddenly everyone need dev expertise again. Of course they do, because most likely you will be disrupted by a company without the legacy, that is sprung from tech. Well, not a disservice to us still around, but it's obvious that theres a lack of expertise to just pick up off the streets. How long you can keep a lot of people employed in a traditional IT dept. and buy a lot of half-crap vendor solutions that you glue together in half-assed ways I guess depends inertia of you customer base, and also as pointed out below, already accumulated wealth.