The Department of Health announces a new, modular approach to implementation. If lessons about programmes of change are not learned, will it be simply be a modular, localized approach to project failure?

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2009-06-25T21:08:23.169+12:00

Just remember, it starts with the NAME: "NPfIT" ... those last 2 letters were always a big clue as to the likely fate of a massive business and cultural change being mischaracterised as an "IT project".

There is an old Chinese proverb that goes "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names".

The fate of the former IT director is also instructive; if the IT unit (management) gloried in the naming of this project, in its very public perception as an IT project, then it lived and died by the very same two-edged sword.

Let us hope that the days of otherwise sensible business people thinking that IT "investment" can compensate for weak management skills, are over.

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