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SE-Radio Epislode 250: Jürgen Laartz and Alexander Budzier on Why Large IT Projects Fail

<p>Alex Budzier of the Oxford Saïd Business School and Jürgen Laartz of McKinsey Berlin join Robert Blumen to talk about the their research on large IT project failures. Why do large projects fail and to what extent are these failures avoidable?</p>

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