Many organizations remain completely unaware when the expected benefits of an IT project drop dramatically. They rarely carry out benefit monitoring of IT investments and frequently alter numbers to ensure that the original expectations of a project are achieved. They then lack the transparency necessary to understand and evaluate the performance and value of critical IT assets.

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