A rather fantastic news story broke about a week ago in the Wall Street Journal, detailing the travails of a whistleblower who exposed a massive IT project run amok at Kaiser Permanente.¹ The story focuses on the drama unfolding between the whistleblower and senior management. The even larger story from my perspective is a sadder, more prophetic and familiar one: how an organization can squander its wealth when even the most rudimentary precepts of sound IT management are ignored.