
Hollow words: United Airline’s CEO talks up ‘silver lining’ of failure
More from the front lines of United Airline’s merger with Continental.

Who’s accountable for IT failure? (part one)
IT failures are a management crisis of serious proportions that have been largely ignored. Here’s what senior executives need to know – and do – right now.

SAP Community Network – Fail?
The Cracks are starting to show! I’ve been gone from the SAP world for awhile now but I doubt I’ll ever be completely gone – too much of my blood is still in the veins of the Developer network. So when I saw all the back and forths about the recent “delay” of the relaunch […]

Simulation drama: ‘Why IT projects fail’
As we all know, almost all IT implementation failures suffer from unreconciled points of view, confusion, politics, and unclear definitions of success. No wonder these situations are difficult to manage and control successfully. To shed light on the inner workings of IT failure, particularly the dynamics among stakeholders with conflicting goals and agendas, the IT […]

Change management and the wisdom of failure
Failure creates excellent opportunities to refine experience and knowledge into great success.

An debate with the Doctor of Failure
Failure happens. There are many issues and stakeholders in any technology implementation process and any of them adds complexity that can lead to failure. The question is how much technology, the DNA of the technology vendor, and other stakeholders contributes to the failure. Is it always a project management issue…

Three simple truths of failure
This great Dilbert cartoon expresses several truths of failure from which we can learn valuable lessons.

Five tips to learn from failure
This five-point advisory list offers a great start to organizations that want to improve IT project success rates.

Failure Fridays
Someone very close to me is about to begin a very cool new gig. Its a role that most would love and in fact be envious of (I sure am – and will be blogging about it soon!). So this…