http://publicstrategist.com/2007/08/government-it-disasters/ Working to make government work better Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://publicstrategist.com/2007/08/government-it-disasters/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Mark Holmes Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:49:09 +0000 http://publicstrategist.com/?p=151#comment-77 [Re: Government IT problems being disasters rather more easily] Cranfield has some rather nice research (from surveys of its clients, so intuitively rather than academically compelling) about how rarely private sector IT projects deliver promised benefits. But the same lecturers who present that research will then present almost exclusively public sector case studies about the failure of IT projects - principally because the NAO kindly writes them up so nicely in public for them. [Re: Government IT problems being disasters rather more easily] Cranfield has some rather nice research (from surveys of its clients, so intuitively rather than academically compelling) about how rarely private sector IT projects deliver promised benefits. But the same lecturers who present that research will then present almost exclusively public sector case studies about the failure of IT projects – principally because the NAO kindly writes them up so nicely in public for them.

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