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Earlier this morning I spent 45 minutes in a meeting discussing the replacement for a $4 million big data system we bought 2 years ago because no one was using it. The solution discussed wasnt to ask the analysts why no one was using it but to spend $20k on POCs for two competing systems each costing a further $5mil as their on-paper specs are marginally superior.

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