• Tighter budgets
• Shrinking teams
• More needs to be done in shorter span
• Attrition of the best in the team
• Overworked rest of the team
• Hard to keep up with newer technology and newer skill sets
• Hard to train on newer skill sets
• Bad economy/growing fuel costs make harder to send employees to train
• Not just one-time occurrence but a continuous trend
• Significant growth in workload
• Hard to find consultant with those skills
• Highly paid Consultants learn at client’s expense
• Not enough budgets to hire more consultants
• Not enough work to keep one-skill consultant busy for all the time, so you keep paying   for twiddling thumbs
• Offshore resources can be hired and are cheap, but culture and time differences   make it hard to manage – and especially what is communicated is not what is done

• How do I best position my company to innovate to more easily adapt to change in the business environment

• Or How do you innovate to become one of the forces influencing the entire business environment itself