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RSS failE-Christmas presents may fail delivery test
News According to a vox pop of silicon.com studio guests, ecommerce outfits will fail to secure consumer confidence until they improve logistical operations and overall site reliability. Simon Moores, director of the Research... [18 Dec 2000]
Two-thirds of IT outsourcing deals fail
News The statistics, provided exclusively to silicon.com by management and outsourcing consultancy Compass, reveal that around 59 per cent of all outsourcing contracts fail. Almost two-thirds of outsourcing deals are failing... [26 Jul 2005]
Businesses fail to learn from e-failures
News Graham Avory, marketing and communications manager at UK ebusiness standards organisation E-Centre, said: "If UK businesses fail to learn these lessons they are not going anywhere. They need to do that, or they will... [13 Sep 2000]
UK retailers fail disability web access test
News The UK's top online shopping sites all fail to meet basic web accessibility guidelines put in place to make it easier for people with disabilities such as sight impairments to use the internet. The study of the top 30... [21 Sep 2006]
CIOs fail IT projects
News Almost 50 per cent of current CIOs will be given their marching orders because they fail to communicate effectively with their CEO according to a report from IT consultants Computer Sciences Corporation. [06 Sep 2001]
The Brampton Factor: Analysts fail on open source
Comment Why big government IT projects fail For open source software to achieve its full potential, people's perceptions must change. Yet how can that happen when open source is so woefully neglected by analysts, asks Martin... [18 Aug 2008]
Websites for the disabled fail accessibility test
News Sternberg added that those organisations that fail to achieve basic compliance also risk serious damage to their reputations and undermining their own good causes. The majority of websites run by disability organisations... [20 Apr 2004]
Senior executives fail to recognise value of IT
News IT is becoming increasingly important to companies, but most boards fail to take it seriously enough, according to a survey from consultancy Orb. Speaking in an interview with Silicon.com, Mike Overgage, Orb's commercial... [15 Feb 2000]
Government websites fail on accessibility
News Those sites to singularly fail people with disabilities, by being less than 1 per cent (and in some cases 0 per cent) compliant with the guidelines, included: the DTI's consumer gateway site; the Home Office site; and... [26 Nov 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Why does technology fail?
Comment Another factor: When is your car most likely to fail? In other words, if we buy 10 items at once, there is a pretty good chance that two or more will fail at a similar time. How come technology seems to... [21 Jan 2005]
Online retailers will fail without bricks and mortar
News Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS Institute, said dot com businesses will fail if they only have one sales channel. Online retailers need to set up clicks and mortar operations and balance diverse channels to market - or face... [27 Jun 2000]
"How to Start and Finish a 'No-Fail' Project" Part II: Improving Team Communication
White Paper One might have the best talents in their team, one might have the most detailed specification and the most comprehensive list of requirements, however unless the team communicates effectively - their project will fail... [14 May 2009]
Official: ID cards project will fail
News And he added: "I conclude that we are setting ourselves up to fail. Leaked emails from senior civil servants have revealed their fears that the ID cards project is heading for disaster. In the emails David Foord, mission... [10 Jul 2006]
Dot-coms fail service test as retailers fight back
News In the UK, respondents were even more pessimistic about the success of dot-coms with over three-quarters believing they would fail to prevail. This finding was made by management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)... [31 Aug 2000]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is web 2.0 doomed to fail?
Comment And I can even see the 'long tail' activity of the thousands of contributors that will undoubtedly fail, or be consigned to the ranks of the mediocre and irrelevant, may prove to be a useful training and testing ground. [23 Apr 2007]
