Did poorly-functioning IT systems contribute to the recent financial crisis? We must ask the question: was the Basel II regulatory framework properly implemented in banks' IT systems? That set of regulations was supposed to provide improved information on exposure to risk.
It is often said that good results on IT-related projects and programmes rely on good communications. This helps to explain why the NHS's £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is such a good case study - an exemplar of how poor communications corresponds with poor results.
Ten years ago I wrote a paper headlining the fact that few organisations had IT representation at main board level. At that time, however, the trend was...