New governance portal takes aim at bad IT

06.02.2007

"We want to have it so if you have anything in relation to the management of project, you want to come to this site," he said. "It is practical, and business-value focused. A lot of these sites are IT-based, and we are not."

Simms said board members tend to ask why there are problems with IT projects and not others.

"Think about all the IT disasters of the past 20 years and they were overseen by business leaders who did not know what they were doing," he said, adding a lot of the planning and structuring is done be IT people who don't understand the dynamics of the business.