On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:58, Thomas Beale wrote: > One major reason many health (and other) IT projects fail is because the > level of decision-making (about funding and large-scale planning) is > almost inevitably many levels of hierarchy above where the kind of > technically/clinically competent people who could asses/design/plan such > endeavours exist. Thus we have the situation where those who are > competent to build anything (whether it be a single system or a national > EHR strategy) are handed usually mad "architectures" and > "specifications" invented by those without only the dimmest grasp of the > domain, let alone the problem at hand. Now, let's all go and read "The > Peter Principle" again;-)
I think I will frame this posting and hang it onto my wall. Horst
