You might have come across Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome. I have come across a variant of it which I would term as Not Invented, especially, Here (NIeH). When technologies that are bought to the Enterprise where a clear boundary of the fulfilled Capability cannot be drawn back to one Owner, its adoption goes for a toss, even with the Technology or Capability has been tested in the wild and could bring transformation to the Enterprise.

The enthusiastic team or the newbie team , that is not exposed to the company’s politics, might bring in the Capability/Technology. The well-founded team which has a remote related Capabilities to the newly brought one , does things in its power to stop the capability adoption, inspite of being aware of the capability/technology’s potential to transform the enterprise. And sometimes it lends a deaf ear to newbie team’s collaboration demands saying NiEH