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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] in
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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Comments
Only Fifty Percent
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 :)
Brad Vaughan
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