Fri 30 Jan 2009
IT as a Strategic Investment – Another failure
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An interesting article about the grand implementation of an ERP system in the hope of bringing operational efficiencies and effectiveness to the organization. Companies want to use IT as a tool to deliver value to customers. Instead of lending to sustainability, a mismanaged implementation, a consequence of ineffective business decision making, can lead to disaster. A failed ERP project at Shane is an eye-opener for all of us about the perils of bad business decisions.
See the article link below:
Shane Company: Lessons Learned From an ERP Failure
For a list of IT investment failures, plesae check the this ZDNet blog.