IT Project Failures

Catalog of major I.T. projects which have failed to deliver.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Ford Motor Co.

System: Purchasing system

Cost: $400 million

Status: Abandoned

Source: Spectrum IEEE Bob Charette 2005


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Avis Europe ERP

System: ERP

Status: Project cancelled

Cost: $54.5 million

Source: Spectrum IEEE Bob Charette 2005


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UK Inland Revenue

Client: UK Inland Revenue

Problem: Software errors

Cost: $3.45 Billion tax-credit overpayment

Source: Spectrum IEEE Bob Charette 2005


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Hudson Bay Co. [Canada]

System: Inventory System
Loss: $33.3 million

Source: Spectrum IEEE Bob Charette 2005


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Thursday, July 06, 2006

CPF Singapore

Vendor: IBM
Customer: Central Provident Fund (CPF) Singapore

Source: Business Times

CPF and IBM in legal spat over IT project 05/07/06. SINGAPORE's Central Provident Fund Board and computing giant IBM are embroiled in one of the biggest IT project failures...


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