The systems that last are the ones you were counting on to be obsolete. A good idea is no match for a bad habit. By the time your CEO has read about a technology, it's no longer a strategic advantage. Ninety percent of a system's cost is still training people to use it. IT projects fail.
Large projects fail more often than small ones.
So if failure isn't an option, you'll never do anything. If you think your company's users are awful, just wait till you're on the Web and have customers of your own. Exactly what you want always costs more than what you can afford - whether it's technology or IT employees. Old ideas got that way because they proved useful. Data isn't information.