Executive Summary

Speaking the Same Language: Creating Understandable Business and IT Models

Posted June 30, 2006 | Leadership |

Most project and system failures occur as a result of miscommunication between business and IT. For example, Computerworld [1] recently described a failed application project for the Irish Health Service Executive that was budgeted originally at US $10.7 million for three years. Ten years and $180 million later (the price of a brand-new, 600-bed hospital), work on the project was halted.

About The Author
Haim Kilov
Haim Kilov is a chief architect, business modeling, with Financial Systems Architects. His approach to business and other specifications -- widely used in financial, insurance, telecommunications, document management, and other areas -- has brought demonstrable clarity and understandability to specifying businesses and designing systems to satisfy business needs. It has been described in two of his books ( Information Modeling and Business… Read More
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