The Crisis of Modern IT Management

We live in a complicated world. Technology evolves faster than ever. Every day brings a new framework, a new platform, a new AI tool, a new promise of transformation.

Yet the more technology advances, the more I find myself asking a simple question:

Have we forgotten why IT exists in the first place?

Before I continue, please consider this a personal blog post. The opinions expressed here are mine and mine alone. They do not represent the views of my employer, colleagues, friends, or the many talented people I have had the privilege to work with throughout my career.

Recently, I have found myself asking questions that I never expected to ask.

What happened to the ability of IT professionals to truly understand, design, and technically elaborate on solutions?

What happened to IT managers? Have they lost touch with technology itself? Have they become so consumed by budgets, contracts, presentations, and vendor meetings that they no longer see what is happening in the technical world around them?

Has the role of the IT professional slowly transformed into that of a glorified purchasing officer?

Why do we continue to support vendors that exploit their customers through aggressive licensing, artificial limitations, and constant price increases?

Why is there often no budget available to reward a loyal employee who creates value every day, yet there always seems to be money available for another consultant, another service contract, or another software license that nobody truly needs?

Why are failed projects so often celebrated as successes? Is it because admitting failure is unacceptable? Or because reversing the decision later creates another opportunity to declare success?

Perhaps I sound pessimistic.

Maybe that is simply who I am.

Or perhaps these thoughts were shaped by years of experience, by watching good people lose battles they should never have had to fight.

I have always wanted to help. To solve problems. To improve things. To build systems that make life easier for people.

Today, what saddens me most is not that problems exist.

It is the growing feeling that many of us are no longer allowed to solve them.