Too fat to diet, too unfit to exercise

I recently saw an email from someone at small-ish bank. Saying our BPA project has gone significantly over budget. So now isn't a good time to ask the business for money to get an SITP planning solution.

The logic of not allocating funds to Strategic IT Planning - i.e. solutions that specifically focuses on ensuring IT costs are reduced, and the scope and cost of initiatives are well understood before work undertaken, and understanding the impact of changes as they occur - when someone has just had experienced a project that has demonstrated the need for SITP systems doesn't make a great deal of sense to me.

I also frequently encounter comments to the effect that the way our strategy & architecture function works (usually as internally oriented function producting documents for their own gratification) isn't really that effective. So we are not going to explore an SITP solution that would enable this function to operate effectively? Rather we are going disband the unit and distribute the function into business units (that operate on tactical and point solutions). So we know we need to think strategically - but at present we can't do it - so for a year to two we will pretend it isn't necessary.

I see this kind of anti-logic all the time. In many aspects of life.

I am reminded of the people to whom I recommend yoga. But I am told told "I am too stiff and stressed" to do yoga, presumably they are also too fat to diet, too unfit to exercise, too uninformed to educate themselves.

If they said we like wasting money, we get off on it, it means we can buy lots of cool technologies to play with. At least one could have respect for them at one level (honesty). Or if they said we really don't understand what strategy & architecture is about or how to get value from it we are really over grown SW developers or systems engineers and our heart is in coding and playing with operating systems. One could have respect for them. Or if they said - I am looking forward to a future or obesity induced health problems, stiffness and stress related disorders - this is a just penance for past behaviour. You could see at least that they are considering the impact of their unwillingness to change their habits. It seems to me that that these people don't even seem self aware enough to do this?

I am tempted to conclude that one thing all these people have in common is that they don't have the energy, will or initiative to change. But unfortunately some of them are among closest friends - so I really don't know what to make of it.