Manual workarounds for everything. Reports that take days to pull together.  Critical knowledge living in spreadsheets and people's heads.

You're making it work. But look at what it's actually costing:

Your time goes to firefighting instead of strategy. Your team is buried in manual processes that modern systems automate. Leadership meetings where you can't answer basic questions because the data's scattered across five different systems.

And the clock's ticking—your most experienced people are retirement-eligible, taking decades of institutional knowledge with them when they go.

Here's what I learned at Maricopa County: The agencies that modernize 
successfully don't wait until systems completely break. They see the 
pattern early and take a methodical approach.

There's a path forward. It doesn't require massive budgets or career-ending risk. But it does require seeing what staying put is really costing you.