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RSS failTwo-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 because organisations are... [26 Jul 2005]
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 fail at the most critical times? [21 Jan 2005]
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]
Nine out of ten websites fail design test
News The bigger the company the more likely it is that its website will fail to meet end users' expectations, according to one of the world's top web design gurus. Jakob Nielsen, an author of web usability books and a well-known design evangelist, told... [07 Nov 2001]
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]
E-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 Group, admitted that while... [18 Dec 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 the Community Legal Service... [26 Nov 2003]
Why Cryptosystems Fail
White Paper Designers of cryptographic systems are at a disadvantage to most other engineers, in that information on how their systems fail is hard to get: their major users have traditionally been government agencies, which are very secretive about their... [24 Feb 2004]
Why Offshore Outsourcing Projects Fail
White Paper Information Technology (IT) projects can fail for any number of reasons and in most cases identifying one reason, or even a small group of reasons, for failure is impossible. Offshore outsourcing IT projects can fail for many of the same reasons as... [11 Apr 2008]
Cluster-Aware ODBC and OCI Client Applications for Oracle Fail Safe Solutions
White Paper This white paper describes how to create cluster-aware ODBC and OCI client applications for use with Oracle database servers configured with Oracle Fail Safe on Windows NT and Windows 2000 Microsoft Cluster Server clusters. [09 Jun 2007]
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 critical director of... [10 Jul 2006]
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 director, said there is a... [15 Feb 2000]
Google, Microsoft doomed to fail?
News The study, sponsored by data warehousing company Kalido, found the key reasons why companies fail include missing a major external event (such as the internet); becoming inflexible over time as they get larger; having a short-term stock-market... [08 Jun 2007]
Four out of five online tax returns fail - official
News Nevertheless, those who do encounter problems filing their returns are likely to fail on successive occasions pushing down the overall average. The Inland Revenue will struggle to meet its target of getting half the UK population to use its... [14 Feb 2002]
Why so many public sector IT projects fail
Comment One of the reasons public sector IT projects fail is because public sector culture leads to the abdication of responsibility, especially with large projects, according to Paul Renucci, MD of Damavo UK, a telecommunications and contact centre... [14 Mar 2005]
