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Revolutionizing IT By David H. Andrews and Kenneth R. Johnson John Wiley & Sons, 2002 272 pages List price: $29.95 ISBN: 0-4712-5041-4
Why do HR information systerns CHRIS) implementations often end up being so messy? In Revolutionizing IT, technology consultants David Andrews and Kenneth Johnson say HRIS and other technology projects suffer from the attempt to do too much at once and from allowing already challenging projects to become even more complex.
"IT professionals are very good at solving clearly defined technical problems," Andrews and Johnson write. "Failure nearly always results from factors that have little to do with making the actual technology work."
Authors Andrews and Johnson studied a number of successful information technology projects, trying to understand how they succeeded while others failed. "The pattern...