[LINK] Australian Government spending $256M to transform government but wasting $485M on failed eHealth system

[JanW]

At 08:54 AM 15/05/2015, Chris Johnson you wrote:
>The failure is collective: there is no small group of individuals who
>failed to say "no, minister" (or "no, permanent secretary"), it's
>collective hubris. We do not train IT professionals to recognise no-go
>areas, only to be aware of failures with the strong implication that if
>you do the next one "correctly" then you won't fail. 

That is so true, Chris. Even risk management doesn't get to that level unless a risk is deemed extreme, and even then there are fools who will rush right in.

I don't know how to get the message through the thick head of the various ministers who have insisted continuously on being foolish. They don't want to accept it and just sink the thing.

As someone said, the Titanic may have been a good idea, but it still sank. Would you get on it today? (that was in reference to Jeb Bush's non-rejection of the Iraq invasion)

Jan


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