Lets show them

When we read about IT budgets blowing out from, say $70 million to $157 million, our minds boggle and we think we don’t know enough to understand. But according to the article, such blowouts in budgets for Enterprise Resource Planning (and other IT areas) are not uncommon, because often executives don’t know enough to understand: they don’t know what their organisation’s needs are and make mistakes. Given Auckland Council’s size, origins and its seven uncontrollable CCOs it’s hard to see them ever really getting a handle on it.
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