Comments on: Some reasons why IT projects fail http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/ Thoughts on the confluence of business, change and technology. Areas covered include business intelligence, cultural transformation, business and IT alignment, business and IT strategy, project execution and social media. Sun, 20 May 2012 04:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-4174 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:04:20 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-4174 Hi John,

Alex was kind enough to let me use it.

Peter

]]> By: John Roberts http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-4173 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:02:21 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-4173 Interesting to see that photo crop up on here…

]]> By: Incremental Progress and Rock Climbing « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-3284 Tue, 04 May 2010 12:24:59 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-3284 [...] can see a photo of a latter-day climber falling off the same route at the beginning of my article, Some reasons why IT projects fail. I’m glad to say in this photo, unlike the video above, the climber is wearing a [...]

]]> By: “Why Business Intelligence projects fail” « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-1760 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:14:22 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-1760 [...] picking holes in other people’s ideas on this topic, I then penned a more general piece, Some reasons why IT projects fail, which did what it said on the can. Incidentally I was clearly in the middle of a purple patch with [...]

]]> By: “Gartner sees a big discrepancy between BI expectations and realities” – Intelligent Enterprise « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-1374 Tue, 12 May 2009 16:55:56 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-1374 [...] should purchase a mirror and start using it.     Continue reading about this area in: Some reasons why IT projects fail     Doug Henschen joined Intelligent Enterprise as Editor in 2004 and was named [...]

]]> By: “Why do CFOs and CEOs hate IT? - ERP” - Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-1122 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:09:30 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-1122 [...] some ways, ERP implementation is just like any other IT project and is difficult to get right for exactly the same reasons. But, as Thomas points out, some things that make ERP stand out are the massive initial outlays, [...]

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-762 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:53:01 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-762 Shehzad,

Thanks for the comments.

Peter

]]> By: Shehzad http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-757 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:15:22 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-757 Hi Peter,

My thoughts on “Why BI Initiatives Fail?”

http://analytiks.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/why-bi-initiatives-fail/

Shehzad

]]> By: Is outsourcing business intelligence a good idea? « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/12/some-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/#comment-243 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:21:15 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1926#comment-243 [...] why IT is failing (most typically due to poor leadership it has to be said, see also my article: Some reasons why IT projects fail) and draw up plans for addressing this. If outsourcing is a strong element of this, then so be it, [...]

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