"Alas, an embarrassingly large percentage of IT projects continue to fail -- and now that so many of them involve outsourcing contracts between vendors and customers who may be located on opposite sides of the world, the failures are even more likely to result in expensive litigation."
- Ed Yourdon, Guest Editor
An article in the 31 March 2005 Economist, aptly titled "Power at Last," proclaimed that new information technologies and the Internet have finally tipped the balance of power in economic exchanges to the side of the buyer.
| Vol. 18, No. 10, October 2005 | ||
| It's About Reducing Risk Failure to include IT in M&A due diligence activity puts unnecessary pressure not only on the IT organization, but also on the business. Technology due diligence defines business issues and needs that require IT support. It's About Increasing Value | ||
IT security certainly is an unusual business. The types and magnitudes of the threats we face today would be almost unimaginable just a few years ago. E-mail viruses have been with us since 1999 [1], but the delivery mechanisms have become more effective and more insidious. For years, security folks were warning us about the growing problems associated with identity theft, and we had been waiting quite some time for the inevitable big Internet worm that would succeed the Morris Worm of 1988 [2]. We now deal with these situations on a daily basis.
| Compliance Lemons | ||
