Billion-Dollar Mistake: How Inferior IT Killed Target Canada

Unmanageable deadlines and disastrous IT wrecked this top US retailer’s attempt at international expansion. The moral of the story: IT drives the enterprise. Business school case studies tend to fall into two categories: epic wins and oh-my-gosh-how-could-they-possibly-have-been-so-stupid epic failures. This article discusses a real-world billion dollar story that falls into the second category. As epic failures go, this one is worthy of the history books. Read more at ZDNet.