... and there's a price tag on everything. Your job included! And mine too! There will always be someone to accept the requirements of "upper management" and create less of an "IT fuss". So... it should not come as a surprise they might be preferred. Especially if, as I said above, they are "get the job donners" and not "artisans of IT change" and of "business model revamping". Who the hell needs that?!?