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Queensland Health - Government of Queensland - Australia
Project type : Payroll (ERP)
Project name : Shared Services Initiative - LATTICE replacement
Date : Jun 2010 Cost : $64.5M AUD direct cost + $1.2B AUD for 8 years of subsequent operations.
Synopsis :
In an effort to save costs, the Queensland Government initiated a "shared services" program in 2003. Th...
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Why do projects fail
National Offender Management Service
Following entry is a record in the “Catalogue of Catastrophe” - a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.
National Offender Management Service - UK
Project type : Integrated offender management system
Project name : C-NOMIS
Date : Mar 2009 Cost :$375M
Synopsis :
Efforts to integrate prison and probation systems from different local authorities into one national system fail. Despite a two year delay and life-cycle costs that have risen from $375M to $1.1B the UK...
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American LaFrance
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American LaFrance – USA
Project : ERP (counting, purchasing, inventory, production, payroll and finance services)
Date : Jun 2007
Cost :$Undisclosed, but ALF blames Chapter-11 bankruptcy on the failure of the project
Synopsis :
ALF (the world's largest builder of customized fire fighting trucks and equipment) files for chapter-11 bankruptcy following a botch...
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Microsoft
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Microsoft - USA
Project type : Mobile phone (Kin)
Date : Jun 2010 Cost :Unconfirmed reports of $1B USD
Synopsis :
Microsoft's "Kin" phones (Kin one and Kin two) are withdrawn from the market after just two months. The phones were designed for the younger market and those who are heavy users of social networking sites. Despite the the price being cut in half...
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Department of Primary Industries – Australia
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Dept. of Primary Industries - Governement of Victoria - Australia
Project type : Smart meters
Date : Jan 2010 Cost :$2.25B AUD
Synopsis :
Costs to deploy smart electrical meters to all households and small businesses in Victoria, Australia balloon from $800M to $2.25B. A review by the Auditor-General questioned whether the project could now deliver any value...
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Sydney Water
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Sydney Water- Australia
Project type : Customer Management System
Date : Dec 2009 Cost : $70M AUD
Synopsis :
Project to modernize and consolidate Sydney Water's Customer Management Systems runs into trouble. Project is delayed by 18 months and exceeds its original budget by more than 100%. Overruns and delays mean that the project's return on investment is ...
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MI5 – MI6
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MI5 - MI6 - UK
Project type : Intelligence sharing system
Project name : Scope
Date : Mar 2009 Cost : reported to be tens of millions of pounds
Synopsis :
System designed to share intelligence between separate groups in the UK intelligence gathering community is cancelled due to "technical concerns". The Cabinet Secretary reported "… we know that the way t...
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West Jet – Canada
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West Jet - Canada
Project type : New passenger Reservations System
Date : Jan 2007 Cost : $34M USD
Updated: 2 Dec 2009
Synopsis :
Efforts to implement a new customized reservations system cancelled amid delays and quality concerns.
Update 2 Dec 2009 - Following the cancellation of the original project in 2007, Westjet moved their reservations systems to t...
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Canadian Payments Association
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Canadian Payments Association – Canada
Project : Truncation and Electronic Cheque Presentment (TECP)|
Date : Jan 2009
Cost : $undisclosed, but web search indicates project to have been a $300M initiative
Synopsis :
The TCEP system was a system designed to simplify the clearing of checks by scanning and transmitting check data between banks rather than transf...
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London Stock Exchange – TradElect
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London Stock Exchange – UK
Project : TradElect
Date : Sep 2009 Cost :$68M
Synopsis :
After four years of development, but just two years of use the London Stock Exchange's flagship trading platform (TradElect) is to be decommissioned and replaced. Lending credence to allegations that recent outages at the exchange were caused by the TradElect, the announcemen...
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