Poor Strategy for Implementation

Abstract

The preceding sections have considered a range of pitfalls which experience indicates to be major causes for lack of success of data-communications-based systems. This final section is concerned with various elements of over-all implementation strategy. No matter how good the design is or how well it is executed technically, there still remains a number of dangers which may be met and prove catastrophic unless a conscious effort to avoid them is built into the implementation strategy. Among the major factors in this regard are the following.