Re:The ransomware surge
by bluGill on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:20PM
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MBAs don't like wasting money. If bad IT costs them money or sales they care. If they can reduce the costs without losing that money they will. However they don't know how to solve this optimization problem and are learning the hard way when they get it wrong.
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I think part of the issue is also that the negative impact of getting IT wrong is delayed, and often lands after your middle managers have moved on to other organisations, thus don't see the impact of cutting costs repeatedly.
Since there's no visible problem (nothing catches fire) the day, week or month after cutting spend on IT, it's an unnecessary expense in the eyes of beancounters.