There are no longer any steady state environments
Things change too fast, and outsourcing contract lengths keep decreasing so the amount of post due diligence (i.e. figuring out how everything works because the old incumbent sure isn't going to be of much help) when you are in a true steady state is pretty short. And that assumes you took over something that was pretty new.
If you are taking over a bunch of outdated stuff and they want "steady state" management that goes out the window as soon as their auditors start telling them this or that is no longer compliant so there will be a constant state of emergency where something has to be replaced ASAP - but because you never truly understood where all the bodies were buried in the legacy gear you'll break stuff and create more emergencies.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
