Saros Consulting: Average Irish enterprise wastes €667K annually on 'zombie projects'
Saros Consulting, an independent IT consultancy based in Dublin, released research showing that the average large organisation in Ireland spends €667K annually on 'zombie projects' — projects that are effectively dead in terms of value, progress, or strategic relevance but continue consuming resources because nobody has formally stopped them.
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The average large organisation in Ireland spends €667K annually on zombie projects.
A zombie project is a project that is effectively dead in terms of value, progress or strategic relevance, but continues to consume time, money and resources because nobody has formally stopped it.
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