Ideally, when we are hired by a new-existing company...
...we come... NOT TO BLAME NOR TO DEFEAT
... but ... TO CONTINUE AND TO IMPROVE...
...unfortunately 'by design' Companies and Owners 'always' set new Successors to blame and to defeat the Predecessors...
It is better (I suppose), we set the Successors to observe, then to continue good programs that have been applied and to improve and perfect the imperfectness of the existing one... (nobody's perfect anyway...)
Unfortunately (again), the common design is to compare Successors to the Predecessors that creates pseudo-rivalry & competition towards the Predecessors. It is exacerbated by Successors who consider that any relics of the Predecessors are no good whether it is the team, the program, the idea/innovation... in short: old goods are no good...
Thrifting is one of my favourite hobbies... (it was started when I lived in Palm Springs, California, lots of good-brandred stuff at close to nothing price... some were ex-wealthy celebs items...with prime quality; of course).
We are hunting for valuable goods that are not valued by the Owners no more.
So, when we are hired as a new 'Owner' why wouldn't we thrift; observe and hunt valuable existing personnels, programs, etc. to use and to apply. For sure thrifting cost you less than buying new items...
It will be more efficient and risk you less...