The Standish Group, an international IT research advisory firm, examined 3,555 technology rollouts in any context that had at least $10 million in labor costs from 2003 to 2012, which includes most significant government IT projects over the period. The firm found that 41.4 percent were total failures; these projects either were abandoned or had to be restarted from scratch. Fifty-two percent of the large projects were over budget, were behind schedule, or didn’t meet user expectations. Only 6.4 percent were successful.
