October 18, 2005 by annegentle

Examples of news stories where IT directly affects business

Jim Grant’s keynote address at today’s BMC Forum offered some interesting news clips

I am always on the lookout for news stories that highlight the connections between IT and business, and Jim Grant had some great news clippings in his presentation today. Here are some of the ones that caught my eye (and I was fast enough to type).

Upgrade downs 80,000 U.K government computers Nov 29, 2004

Avis blames IT for multimillion-dollar loss Oct 22, 2004

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