The Hidden Cost of “Good Enough” IT

There’s a quiet epidemic in enterprise IT — projects that “technically work.”

The ERP launches. The dashboards load. The automation runs — sort of. On paper, everything’s fine. But under the hood? Slow queries, missing integrations, and a growing list of workarounds that only one person on the team understands.

The company isn’t in crisis — yet. But it’s bleeding hours and losing momentum in small, invisible ways.

The Problem With “Good Enough”

When budgets tighten, “good enough” becomes the unofficial strategy.
It’s how companies end up running mission-critical workflows on half-migrated systems and decade-old APIs.

We’ve seen one logistics firm still emailing CSVs between its inventory and finance systems — because “the integration mostly works.” It didn’t. It just failed quietly enough to ignore.

Eventually, the cracks widen. Teams start compensating manually. Data goes out of sync. The CFO stops trusting the reports. And by the time IT gets the budget to “fix it properly,” the original vendor has moved on — along with all the context.

What “Good Enough” Really Costs

1. Hidden labour. Every manual workaround is unpaid overtime that never shows up in forecasts.
2. Lost agility. Slow systems make innovative teams reactive instead of strategic.
3. Compound risk. One misaligned field today becomes a full audit tomorrow.

What the Smart Ones Do Instead

The best companies treat “good enough” as a red flag, not a milestone.
They run quick, surgical audits to find hidden inefficiencies. They keep small, senior teams on standby — like our engineers in the Kaunas High Tech Cluster — who can jump in to stabilise, not rebuild.

Because fixing isn’t the same as restarting. Sometimes the best transformation starts with cleaning up what you already have.

If your IT “sort of” works, it’s already costing you more than you think.

Stop maintaining problems. Start regaining control.