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  One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion

  Posted: December 28th, 2009, 2:18pm CET by timothy

  Tags:  bug  

  blognoggle writes "Roger Sessions, a noted author and expert on complexity, developed a model for calculating the total global cost of IT failure. Roger describes his approach in a white paper titled The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. He concludes that IT failure costs the global economy a staggering $6.2 trillion per year."

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