Highest Risk Factors

In 2015, NEOS conducted a survey to gather a wide range of thoughts regarding the reasons projects under-perform or outright fail. We are updating that survey in 2016 and welcome your participation!

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* 1. Rank order the items below based on your personal experience with projects that fail to deliver on their anticipated business value. Select the item that is most likely to result in the project delivering poor business benefits and click the #1 column. Select the next most likely and make that #2. Rank the remaining items in descending order of impact to business value/return on investment. If you have an additional item to add, please do so in the box provided.

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Inadequate business leadership/sponsorship (wrong sponsor, ineffective sponsor)
People outside the project don't know what's going on with the project
Poor project mechanics (project management, reporting, issue resolution, project communication, etc.)
The project doesn't engage users during the project to facilitate adoption and buy-in
Wrong technology fit for the company, platform, business situation
The project's objectives don't align with the organization's strategy and goals

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* 2. What one best practice would you recommend to a colleague to mitigate the risk of the items you ranked as #1 or #2 in the previous question?

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* 4. If you are willing to respond to some follow up questions, please provide some basic contact information below. We'll also send you a copy of the tabulated results.

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