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IT Failures

Management Today recently published one of my articles on IT failures:

MT Expert: IT Failures

What can small companies learn from big IT failures?

In recent months you’ve probably read a lot about high-profile IT project failures (take the row over the new NHS IT system). But to be fair to the IT industry, most of these projects fail not for technology reasons, but for people reasons – such as a lack of IT voice in the boardroom. And if you wait until you’re a big company before you address this, you’re probably going to be too late...

>>Click here to read the rest of this article at Management Today.

An "Unfiltered" Interview

Randy Holloway, who works (and blogs) for Microsoft interviewed me for his personal blog, Randy Holloway Unfiltered.

Randy writes:

Recently I had the opportunity to read Ade McCormack’s book The IT Value Stack. In the book, Ade makes the case for stronger alignment of IT with their business customers. The book strongly resonated with me given my prior experience in corporate IT. Ade was gracious enough to grant me an interview so I could ask him some more questions about the book and gain some insights on the challenges of IT alignment with their business customers. I’m planning to post this interview in three parts and will provide a short review and final comments in the third post.

Read part one of Randy's interview