To understand why the results differ from Standish, I asked Blaize Horner Reich, one of the authors, to explain. Blaize sent me unpublished material describing differences between her group's ...

When was the last time you saw a major failure in implementing decisions? What about in project or process management? Such disasters can have devastating consequences for high-flying careers and ...

Research has shown digital transformation projects in the APAC region fail at a high rate — and have mixed success at best. For example, Gartner research recently released in Australia found that the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aleksandra Bal covers indirect tax and technology developments. Technology projects often end in disappointment, and in some cases ...

The decision to cancel the BBC’s Digital Media Initiative (DMI) with nothing to show for the almost £100m spent on it should be a warning to other organisations, in the public and private sectors, ...

One billion dollars. Zero results. Those are the basics of a cancelled software modernization project at the Air Force. And since it was your taxpayer money, and you deserve to know, I’ll just go ...

IT project failure isn't completely pervasive, but it still happens far too often. One 2017 survey reported that only 34% of projects finish on time and only 42% come in on budget. A Wrike study from ...

Every year, the Improbable Research organization hands out Ig Nobel prizes to research projects that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.” For example, this year’s Ig Nobel winners, ...

The late 20th century was littered with project failures. It's still going on in the legacy world. Here's one example that shows precisely how ignoring red flags will guarantee failure. The ...

A number of improvements to Apple's mapping service that were slated to hit the stage at last week's Worldwide Developers Conference did not appear after poor planning and "internal politics" caused ...

The Lincoln Project released a new video Thursday that calls President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus outbreak a "failure" by showing a timeline of increasing cases and deaths throughout ...