As I posted recently, Temporary Solutions are not a topic of my predilection. But, as Alec Satin mentioned in his comment, sometimes you need to patch up wounds on the battlefield and move on. I found an excellent example of that situation today in a Washington Post article. The new staff showed up at the White House only to find they couldn’t use the network or the phone system, as they have not been configured for them to use yet. What did they do? Apply a Temporary Solution, and in this case it won’t last three years as I affirmed that these solutions usually do.
Problem: No access to the email, network and phone system.
Temporary Solution: Use your personal cell phones and setup Gmail accounts for staff.
Of course, this procedure had to be cleared by the White House counsel, but they found a way to keep moving forward. For sure, there are ways to approach this problem in a more proactive way, but it was too late for that, so a Temporary Solution was needed. Good move, in my opinion.
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