Technology Replacement Cycle

You surely remember the famous water cycle, don't you ?

I observed another type of cycle in IT technologies.
The different phases are as follow :

• Top management decides to renew the infrastructure from scratch. (rain shower)
• A project manager is then in charge of having these specifications enforced by some large so called "no risk" company to take charge of the implementation.
• It will be decided invariably not to involve the internal operation team and to get rid of the old infrastructure to start from fresh.
• Project will go on with essentially external contractors.
• The all thing will got rolled out eventually and the project team will disappear.
• Baby is passed in the arms of the operations team. The situation is complex and not documented in a way to be useful for the operations.
• The new architecture will NEVER be really maintained, it will go on from its initial push, but the motion will slow down, the entropy of system will increase until :
• Top management decides to renew the infrastructure from scratch. (rain shower)

Consequences of this brutal cycle :

• Organization is never capitalizing its proper knowledges.
• Organization is unable to improve by itself. (It's always supposed to be the best of the world)
• Organization is adapting on a mutational mode. (A way of not adapting)
• Organization has to support periodic period of difficult changes.
• Investment is not incremental.

This is a significant sign of a non mature way of managing IT technologies.
Do you recognized your own organization ?

Tell me !