Outdated tech, or cobbled together solutions, limits your ability to respond to the needs of your organization and to changes in the market.
During the financial crisis of 2008, Bair insisted that she and her agency have a seat at the table, where she worked -- and fought -- with Henry Paulson, then the treasury secretary, and Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, as they tried to cobble together solutions that would keep the financial system from going over a cliff.
"Without the Malaysia solution you've got a cobbled together Indonesian solution that is wholly unsatisfactory, it's not protecting the borders, it's not saving lives," Mr Carr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABCC).
They got together in a room, dumped the box of materials available to the astronauts on the table and said, "Here's what we have to work with…" After working for a tense few hours, they cobbled together a solution with step-by-step instructions for the oxygen-starved astronauts.
Many start-ups quickly cobbled together tech solutions to support their cause.
Between them, England cobbled together a result.
Early on Tuesday, finance ministers from the euro zone and the International Monetary Fund, meeting for the third time in three weeks, cobbled together yet another stopgap solution for Greece.
If the plans do not pass muster, the commission can require a revised draft.The solutions cobbled together so far have relied heavily on the European Central Bank, an unelected body, and on rescue funds such as the European Stability Mechanism, which offers aid in return for agreements on austerity and structural reforms.
According to a former Oracle employee, "There was no solution". The cobbled together collection of products that Oracle called the "Oracle Solution" was not flexible, was not integrated, and most importantly, did not work "out-of-the-box". Oracle's 2010 and 2011 claims to DHS and OHA were patently and categorically false.
The solutions we cobbled together were rife with flaws wireless interference, a lack of hi-def compatibility despite the rise of HDTV and required far too much time rooting through the TV cabinet with a flashlight.
