Three reasons are identified for poor project
planning in organisations. These are; risk
management had not been addressed, business
systems had not been justified to the full and lack
of involvement from management Knott and
Dawson (1999). These can be taken as the major
reasons but are not exhaustive. This is due to the
diversity of the implementation environments.
Also, as noted by Bannister and Remenyi (2000),
p.1), when it comes to complex decisions,
managers often rely on methods which do not fall
within the traditional boundaries of so-called
rational decision making. It is observed that
managers sometimes base decisions on ‘acts of
faith, gut instinct or blind faith’ (referred to as
strategic insight). As noted by Harindranath
(1993), though developing countries commit a
sizable amount of economic resources to ICT, for
them to reap maximum benefits, ICT needs
careful planning and coordination prior to
implementation and use otherwise trial and error
methods of implementation that characterise most
government ICT applications will only succeed in
the wastage of scarce resources