IDG Contributor Network: How to avoid M2M

I recently talked with a fabulous IT leader. When Nipa Chakravarti took the IT reigns at TransAlta (Canada’s largest publicly traded power generator and provider of renewable energy), she faced a massive $40 million IT ERP re-implementation. After taking a look at it, her first action was to cancel this project. She said they needed to get the company out of the M2M world – her term for the “many months and millions of dollars” involved in large IT implementations. &