Are you working on multiple solutions to the same problem at the same time? What I'm refering to is that you have a short term business goal where you don't require any IT help. A mid term goal where you have very limited IT help and then you have the ideal long term solution that is provided by your IT Team. In many cases these solutions are quite different from each other. The challenge with this approach is that short + mid term solutions tend to hang around much longer than expected. Are you using this approach in your company? If yes, how is that working for you? While it is necessary in some cases to follow this approach I do not consider this a valid default approach. What is holding you back from aligning the short, mid and long term solutions into one solution?
In many cases the missing action is a decision. Who is making the decisions regarding your different solutions? Are these the same or different people? Is the communication and training effort worth developing different solutions? To focus only on one solution is much more effective in many ways (e.g. development effort, training effort, communication etc.) and therefore you might want to resist the temptation to always work on multiple solutions.
