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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. Re:Asleep at the Switch by yerktoader · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sir! You will NOT sully the good name of(...what was it, hang on, let me check...Roger Sessions...)Roger Sessions! He is a respected and noted author and expert on The Internet! He knows exactly how SRS this business can be!

  2. This article is self promotion bate. by upuv · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've seen so many of these sorts of articles lately on /.

    It's really devaluing /.

    It would be nice to have some mod facility to get these nuked. It's disappointing that such a long running resource like /. is now being infected with self promotion. One of the best self promotion FAILS was the one about face book switching to some C++ frame work from php in order to save 10s of thousands of servers resources. I'm still laughing about that one.

  3. Re:Not the same thing by Evets · · Score: 2, Informative

    :) That's the problem with many of the projects I've seen: No time for requirements gathering, no time for testing, and deployment should take less than a day. So no matter how well you design and execute your design - you end up with last minute poorly thought out enhancements and any testing done happening from a developers standpoint instead of an end user's.