Your most expensive tech projects: The ones nobody questions

Right now, somewhere in your company, a renewal notice is waiting to be signed for a system nobody has seriously questioned in years. It will go through. Meanwhile, a new project that is a fraction of its size is being put through a business case, a steering committee, and a procurement review, defended line by line. The larger the spend, the less anyone asks. I have spent my career around enterprise technology, and this is the pattern I see most often. We govern the new and the small. We wave…