June, 2007

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Strategic IT Does More than Assume Technology Risk, it Mitigates Business Risk

The Agile Manager

Risk management, particularly in IT, is still a nascent discipline. Perhaps this is because there are an overwhelming number of cultural norms that equate “risk management” to “defeatism.” To wit: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” is intuitively appealing, offering a forward-looking focus without the encumbrance of consideration for that which might go wrong.