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The IT projects no-one wants to pay for

29 July 2011  

In this month’s discussion of the integration of risk, customer and finance data in the banking and insurance sector, Accenture executive Edwin van der Ouderaa lays out a taxonomy of projects that will ring true for IT leaders in all sectors.

There are, he explains, the projects that pay for themselves because they address a specific and defined business challenge. These are the easiest to secure investment for, as they have the explicit backing of the business.

Then there are rationalisation and optimisation projects, van der Ouderaa explains, which may not address a specific business need but... read more...

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