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One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion

Posted by timothy on from the but-what's-the-cost-of-preventing-it? dept.

blognoggle writes "Roger Sessions, a noted author and expert on complexity, developed a model for calculating the total global cost of IT failure. Roger describes his approach in a white paper titled The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. He concludes that IT failure costs the global economy a staggering $6.2 trillion per year."

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  1. Simple solution, put it into the cloud by alen · · Score: 4, Funny

    and it will magically work the way it's supposed to work

  2. They should have tried by vandelais · · Score: 5, Funny

    turning it off and on again.

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  3. A sad day. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    His failure to title the report "The IT Complexity Crisis: Epic Fail" saddens the hearts of all good men and patriots.

  4. Pathetic by oldhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mgmt blames the devs, and devs blame the mgmt, and both get modded "insightful".

    It's like watching hot naked babes wrestling in the mud, except that it's the exact opposite.

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