Australia's worst-ever IT Project Failure?
Last month, in our press review, we made brief reference to "A live case study" - the move to production of the Imports Module of Australian Customs massive re-engineering program. Hardly anybody in business today could be unaware of what happened next. Ports choked on unprocessed cargo, and the year's peak load of pre-Christmas imports was hopelessly delayed. Having studied the press discussions of this project over the past two years, we can only describe it as a monumental and catastrophic failure in corporate governance of IT. For our extended discussion , please read on.
Getting IT right
While Customs took the lions share of the press headlines this month. We can learn much from these examples, but the lessons will only be truly effective when organisations ensure that they are as effective in governing their IT assets as they are in governing their financial assets. See this month's headlines for the range of discussions we have this month.
Minimise the risk of
internal fraud and compliance failure
On 24 November, our foundation sponsor
Advent One joins with IDC to deliver a two hour briefing on this important
topic, and to formally launch
IntellinX onto the
Australian market. This month, Advent One have provided us with an
interesting case study,
describing how a bank in Israel used IntellinX to satisfy stringent security
requirements closely related to the requirements of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act
and the Basel 2 Accord. To participate in the briefing, in Melbourne, please
contact Greg McAllister or Bob Bassat on 03 9626-2474 or by
email.
Read On...
Feedback suggests that the web-based format is the one our readers like, so we'll stick with it. We've made a few minor changes to layout this month - breaking the press coverage up into a series of topics. We hope it makes them easier for you to read.
To read The IT Governance Letter, select the pieces you want to read from the menu at left. Or just click on the "next" button at the bottom of each page to read from start to finish. We don't expect that you will read the entire letter in a single sitting. Each topic is self contained, so you may find it worthwhile to read a bit now, and come back later. Whichever way you choose to use it - we hope you enjoy it.
And if you'd like to tell us what you think, please click on the feedback button, which is in the panel at left.
If you prefer to print and take away, we've also prepared this portable, printer-friendly version. Please be aware that, for the time being, we don't have the means of putting active hyperlinks into the PDF, so if something says "click", we mean in the web-based version.
Mark Toomey
14th November 2005.