Three reasons why IT projects fail to deliver

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Peter Sommer, research fellow at the London School of Economics' Computer Security Research Centre asks, 'Can we ever Trust IT?', the first of our five Agenda Setters topics

Why do so many government and corporate IT projects disappoint - or fail? Why is the dominant family of desktop operating systems and applications so full of bugs and security holes? Is the compu...

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