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We attempt to address this by making IT's annual bonus tied in part to our dev's project completion. It's not perfect, but the heart is in the right place. A big problem with this is that when we're dealing with limited manpower, we'd rather throw it at the easy issues than the hard ones, and ultimately get more things done.

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Maybe create a 'time wasted' ticket system to help quantify employee hours wasted by IT roadblocks? It smells like it could be gamed heavily, but it might work better.

the same should then apply to "adopting the tool to the process" instead of "adopting the process to the tool" when a new technology is implemented but process and behavior are declared immutable.

It's proprietary software (adobe, apple/microsoft, autocad, etc) and they file it as a no fix. Or it's open source and it will take $30k+ in engineering time to change it and $100k+ in time wasted waiting.

Now what.

There is also an inversion of responsibility here. It really should be IT's job to 'adapt the tool to the process' instead of externalizing it to their staff. Until they can do it, the staff needs outweigh the lazy 'default no' of IT.

if you buy a new erp, and it comes with a set of best practice process, and your management and employees all insist on transposing the new process onto the new software, in some cases why even buy the new software. its a different coat of paint on the same thing. youre buying a new erp for the change in process, but you refuse to adopt it.

or simply use an Excel to log time and reason, this should be a short term effort only to prove a point.

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