When reading these stories, part of me wants to give up and switch to the dark side. Instead of worrying about whether what we're doing is even useful for anyone, I could be earning money and prestige by leading large companies to deploy random SaaS solutions. What's not to like? I mean, except making your organization waste couple billion dollars and hundreds of man-years?
Get promoted/leave for more money after 18mths.
2 years rolls around, everything is on fire but the guy with the matches is nowhere to be found.
Sounds very very familiar to me.