If we had stayed in our own functional silos, afraid of learning something new, we never would have realized that changing the process first meant that the old computer system had to do less work. Oiling the big machinery. The convincing argument is that large integration firms can call upon vast resources across their organization. In reality, no successful company has people waiting on the bench just to fulfill this promise. If you have bought into the big firm argument, listen for the other shoe to drop.
Big firms are after big projects.
There is a strong tendency to bundle the total life cycle into one all encompassing deal. Most companies today are operating with an organizational structure that was derived from the manufacturing age, where companies were optimized for producing large quantities of uniform goods. Many of us know this. All too often, a well-intentioned business design is handed off to technical personnel to be implemented. This has a number of serious implications.