http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/four-short-links-9-january-2015.html
Photo City of Light (c) Carl Milner.
This quote gets to the heart of some of the mistaken group-think in enterprise IT.
The so-called economies of scale claimed for big IT solutions turn out to be largely illusory. Their business cases begin with wrong-headed, goods-dominant accounting copied from the world of manufacturing, where buying stuff in bulk really can be cheaper. Wishful thinking by people remote from the frontline carries these projects forward unchallenged. But by the time complex shared services have been tailored to the needs of the people and teams who use them, they can actually increase costs substantially.