Moreover, enhancements to developed technology may have a turn around time of less than 12 months. As if all the complexity and uncertainty were not enough, computer professionals also had to contend with a mind-boggling array of standards and policies. This, then, underlines the challenges for the auditors in the coming millennium. Companies will continue to face adaptive challenges. Changes in societies, markets, customers, competition and technology around the globe will force organizations to clarify their values, develop new strategies and learn new ways of operating.
Adaptive problems are often systemic problems with no ready answers.
Auditors may not realize that the sense of autonomy can inhibit the development of new talent at the organizations. Projects with rapidly changing business requirements generally are not considered conducive to the control structures. This eliminates the company's ability to gain a level of experience in managing innovative system development projects. As a result, IT continues to have huge backlogs for application developments and conversions, and the burden of legacy maintenance does not disappear. Historically, in the corporate world, there is resistance to change, basically because there is comfort in the familiar.