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You Need On-Time Delivery, and IT Needs Quality
If you think it’s tough to get funding for IT-enabled initiatives, it’s even tougher to get them “done.” It seems easy: you tell IT what you want your new technology to do (your requirements), and, voilà, technology is delivered that meets your specs—on time and on budget. No problem, right?
Wrong. IT-enabled change is difficult, and project delivery is pretty spotty. Research indicates that only about half of all projects are delivered successfully (considered on time, on budget, on spec). In general, IT projects tend to deliver too little (about 12 percent of IT-enabled projects are canceled), ...
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