2025-05-15
6 分钟The Economist Hello, this is Alok Jha,
host of Babbage, our weekly podcast on science and technology.
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Let's play a word association game.
Champions.
Liverpool.
Cyclists.
Smug.
IT project.
Failure.
Ask people what they know about tech projects and they will probably say that they take longer than expected,
cost more than budgeted and deliver less than they are meant to.
Is that perception accurate?
And if so, what can be done about it?
A forthcoming paper by Bent Flubier of Oxford University and his co-authors sheds light on these questions.
Mr. Flubier has made a career out of studying the ways in which megaprojects go wrong.
These disappoint with amazing regularity, Tottenham Hotspur.
Less than 10% of them meet their initial estimates for both cost and time.