I think it’s lack of long term thinking. The IT and HR departments at my company constantly come up with new shiny initiatives for saving cost. They centralize

I think it’s lack of long term thinking. The IT and HR departments at my company constantly come up with new shiny initiatives for saving cost. They centralize a lot of stuff and save some money that way. Over time it turns out that things don’t work but the initiator has already been promoted away and the next guy starts his own initiative. So there is this constant cycle of short term savings that cause long term cost. And it seems nobody cares about these long term effects because they all are focused on putting up a good short term show.