I have been thinking for a while now that the so-called “credit-crunch” is really a crisis of business integrity, fuelled by human weakness but driven by inadequate business models that have been isolated from reality by their “systems.”
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The proliferation of “mashups” (software services created by combining disparate components into a new configuration) shows that they are becoming increasingly popular and have already entered the Enterprise domains. Some of these are not only useful but also fairly quick to develop and deploy. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. The facility of mashup development and deployment must Continue reading article » Computer Weekly reports that a major London hospital, Barts, could pay a very high price for problems associated with the implementation of new systems, part of the NHS programme for IT. If I read this article correctly, Barts is forecasting an additional spend of nearly £1M for temporary staff AND an income shortfall of £3M for this year. Which makes Continue reading article » Computing reports Gartner estimates that the worldwide market for IT in 2008 will be $3.4 trillion, up by 7% on the figures for 2007. I guess that makes the size of the Trillion Dollar Bonfire almost $2 trillion (per year) of disappointment and cost; based on 50 to 60% of investments failing to achieve their intended returns. A date bug in a recent VMWare release has caused serious problems for many users, halting systems when their clocks hit August 12th. Story at The Register… |
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