Surviving Enterprise Systems: Adaptive Strategies for Managing Your Largest IT Investments

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Surviving Enterprise Systems: Adaptive Strategies for Managing Your Largest IT Investments

Posted March 31, 2001 | Leadership |

THE RIDICULOUS BUSINESS OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

In the 1980s, managers in most companies would have called an IT project with a US $10- or $20-million budget "large." Some really huge companies -- like General Motors, Exxon, or Ford -- did projects with $100-million-plus budgets, but those were pretty rare. In the 1990s though, things changed. Budgets skyrocketed.

About The Author

Robert Austin

Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More

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Surviving Enterprise Systems: Adaptive Strategies for Managing Your Largest IT Investments

THE RIDICULOUS BUSINESS OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

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