‘It Looked Marvellous in the Prospectus’: Taurus, Information and Decision Making
Open Access
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of General Management
- Vol. 23 (3) , 73-87
- https://doi.org/10.1177/030630709802300301
Abstract
Large-scale IT projects can often fail, even if they seemed a good idea at the time. This is the story of the collapse of the multi-million pound TAURUS project, commissioned by the London Stock Exchange.Keywords
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