Y2K Lessons Learned

Stockholders of some companies will want to know why compliance cost so much money and required so much effort. This text aims to answer those executives who are now looking to manage the IT function efficiently and successfully regain control over their IT departments.

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Billions have been spent by businesses and the government in their efforts to avoid systems shutting down on 1 January 2000 as a result of the millennium bug. For some companies this was a relatively minor problem which was easily fixed. However, other companies were still scrambling to fix the problem late on. This book that the critical difference is that those that were not prepared had failed to apply analytic techniques and management methods to their IT departments which had gone relatively unchecked. Once companies have resolved their Y2K problems, stockholders will want to know why compliance cost so much money and required so much effort when other companies were able to resolve the problems swiftly and cost-effectively. This text aims to answer those executives who are now looking to manage the IT function efficiently and successfully regain control over their IT departments.