UK tax department: Bizarre IT spending incentives
Phil Pavitt, CIO for the UK tax department, recently spoke out against huge IT projects. Some of his comments are extraordinary.
A New Vision for SOA Governance: A Focus on the Social Aspect
It almost a truism that cultural and organizational factors — these include politics, information silos, “tribal” interests, and effective change management — generally determine the success or failure of a major IT initiative in most organizations today. While “big bang” strategic projects and infrastructure upgrades are notoriously fraught with peril, particularly when it comes to […]
Worldwide cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion
Most IT professionals know that project failure is a common and serious problem in organizations of all kinds. New research attempts to quantify the extent of IT failure in the worldwide economy.
Why projects fail: Obstacles and solutions
Here are slides from my presentation at the Babson College Center for Information Management Studies (CIMS), covering how to understand and prevent failed IT projects.
Workday, SaaS, and Failure: ‘A matter of trust’
Software as a service (SaaS) vendor, Workday, which sells human resources applications, recently had a 15-hour outage, during which time its system was unavailable to customers. In an unusual twist, this post is about success and not failure. Background. The story begins when I heard about the outage through an anonymous source. To learn more, […]
Scholarly interest in IT failure and waste
The non-technical academic world has become interested in ethical issues surrounding IT failure and wasted resources. Here’s a presentation on failure I’m giving to a scholarly audience.
The IT Industry’s Shame
By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 9, 2010
The last few months have been joyful. I have had a chance to mingle with a number of innovators as I wrote my book. Many are focused on the Grand Challenges the word faces – environmental, engineering etc. It is…
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