Outsourcing - Be Very Cautious

Posted by Kevin Brady on Tue 1st August 2006 at 06:18 PM, Filed in IT Strategy

Unless you do something very special, developing large scale IT systems is not, as they say in the stock market, “an investment suitable for wives or widows”.

Sad but true !

Given the failure rates and high costs of large scale IT projects I struggle to comprehend the following:-

• Why is national IT expenditure increasing year on year?

• Why has the UK Government increased its IT expenditure almost logarithmically over the past 10 years? 

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