CHAPTER 6: SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT AND PROJECT RISK

The fast-changing information economy drives organizations to continuous information innovation, to find new ways of manipulating information to identify new avenues for competitive success. This, combined with relentless cost pressure, drives organizations to attempt continuous system and process improvement, usually expressed in the form of system upgrades, system development, or system deployment. Increasingly, organizations ‘bet the farm’ on the successful development and deployment of new systems, in a business environment that can change so fast that the original assumptions on which a project’s rationale were based can become fatally undermined prior to its completion.

These projects have ...

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