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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When I started up this Blog some weeks ago, I aimed to make three postings a week. Unfortunately, it would seem that I have failed at the first hurdle due to ill health. I am currently in hospital with a severe Kidney infection. An x ray yesterday indicated that a number of small Kidney stones are aggravating my condition. All I can say is that irrespective of the diagnosis, my one preoccupation is PAIN RELIEF and keeping strangers out of my bed. YEAP you heard it, keeping strangers from sleeping with me!
Whilst being beside myself with pain, I have been tortured by being put next to someone called “Donald” who normally lives in a nursing home and who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
Last night it took two security guards to restrain him from getting into my bed 
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