When Friends Disagree
This one is short, but irresistible.According to the Kansas City Business Journal, Sprint Nextel is suing IBM for $6.
Beyond IT Failure
Michael Krigsman is a recognized authority on the causes and prevention of IT failures.
Michael Krigsman
Michael Krigsman, CEO of consulting and research firm Asuret, is an international authority on IT success, social business transformation, and related CIO issues. For more information, visit mkrigsman.com.
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Overdue Books
Autumn Grooms reports in the La Crosse Tribune how a 14-year old boy received a $22,840 library fine for a book that was six days overdue. According to Judy Jamesson, secretary to the library director, “During that merger [of two systems], obviously, things happened.
INTERVIEW: Lydia Segal on Government Waste and Corruption
Some of the most dramatic examples of IT-related waste can be seen in public sector projects. To get a handle on why government projects are so problematic, I spoke with Lydia Segal, one of the nation’s foremost experts on waste and corruption in public schools.
Knowing When to Quit
Patricia Keefe has a blog entry in Information Week, where she describes two failed projects: the FBI Virtual Case File and the Mecklenburg County court system, both of which you can read about in this blog.Patricia raises the question of deciding when it’s time to kill a project.
Throwing Good Money After Bad?
The Charlotte Observer’s Carrie Levine describes an ugly IT situation faced by Mecklenburg County, NC. Here’s what happened.
INTERVIEW: Karen Lojeski on Virtual Distance
Ever get the feeling that your project isn’t running well but you can’t seem to put your finger on the cause? That vague feeling of misunderstanding is often difficult to quantify, define, and diagnose.
Failing Grades
Sam Dillon reports in the New York Times on states’ expensive efforts to implement new computerized record systems for tracking student grades, performance, attendance, and other data. These are complex and expensive systems, and many state education departments are seeing poor management result in many millions of dollars of waste.
Our Lips are Sealed
Timothy Johnson wrote an op-ed piece for the Des Moines Business Record describing one of the key elements associated with many project failures: information hiding. He points out that numerous elements in the project environment can contribute to the free flow (or lack) of information.
Not Talking Yet
K.C Jones, writing in Information Week, describes how the Department of Homeland Security spent $2.
Booted!
Sarah Arnott reports that UK energy giant Centrica has kicked Accenture off a £400m IT project. According the the article, Accenture was almost a year behind schedule on this project, which includes both Siebel and SAP components.