The IT-Business Gap: Another Root Cause

In last two papers, the authors ranted at length about the all too prevalent scenario of IT projects that have failed spectacularly, costing the companies that funded them millions of dollars (in some cases, hundreds of millions) with no usable outcomes. The authors also pointed out that one major cause of this phenomenon is the tendency to drive IT projects from a functional silo approach. In this paper the authors add another cause the authors think is behind this dismal history.