It Risk
Submitted by vvkamath on December 15, 2011
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It Risk
o top managers at Levi Strauss,
revamping the information tech-
nology system seemed like a good idea. The company had come a long way since its founding in the 19th century by a German-born dry-goods salesman: In 2003 it was a global corporation, with operations in more than 110 countries. But its IT net- work was antiquated, a balkanized mix of
incompatible country-specific computer systems. So executives decided to migrate to a single SAP system and hired a team of Deloitte consultants to lead the effort. The risks seemed small: The proposed budget was less than $5 million. But very quickly all hell broke loose. One major customer, Walmart, required that the system...
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