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Crap Factoid alert: Fifty percent of all CMDB projects fail due to inadequate planning.

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2008-06-03 10:59. [nid:632]
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Chokey the Chimp was happy we weren't seeing any CFs in May, but I knew something would come along, and I might have guessed EMA would oblige. I might also have guessed it would be CMDB-related.


For once this Crap Factoid isn't based on what passes for "research" amongst analysts like EMA. It started as a prediction:
EMA predicts that over 50% of all current CMDB implementations will fail because of inadequate planning.

but by the time the EMA marketing department was done with it, it had built up into a category 1 Crap Factoid

Fifty percent of all CMDB projects fail due to inadequate planning.

Watch this one blow across the Itilsphere. All sightings welcomed.

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Only Fifty Percent

Submitted by buraddo on Tue, 2008-06-03 14:15.

I am shocked at the conservative nature of the statement. 50% is a little bit of marketing fence sitting. Nowhere near enough hype to be impactful. Surely "90% of all CMDB projects fail" - Brad Vaughan (please make sure you reference me in the quote :)

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