U.S. State IT System Problems Piling Up
California EDD Department Says Backlog Cleared, Many Unemployed Say Not True
Nevada Blames Feds for Recent New Unemployment System Woes
Michigan’s New Unemployment Insurance System Stumbles Out of the Gate
Kansas Hospitals Bitterly Complain about State’s New Medicaid System 10 Months after Going Live
Massachusetts Senate Panel to Hold Hearings on Troubled New Unemployment Insurance System
North Carolina Lawmakers to Investigate Poor Medicaid and Food Stamp Systems Rollouts
Scotland’s Largest Health Board Suffers Major System Crash
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board Says IT System Affecting 11 Hospitals Finally Fixed
“Unique” Active Directory Glitch Blamed for IT Failure at Scottish Hospitals
Minister Orders Investigation into Scotland NHS Computer Chaos
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Chrysler to Fix Software Flaw in 140 000 Pickups and SUVs Worldwide
Telstra in Australia Email Outage Angers Users
France Blames Phone Company “Malfunction” for Wrong August Unemployment Numbers
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Robert N. Charette is a Contributing Editor to IEEE Spectrum and an acknowledged international authority on information technology and systems risk management. A self-described “risk ecologist,” he is interested in the intersections of business, political, technological, and societal risks. Charette is an award-winning author of multiple books and numerous articles on the subjects of risk management, project and program management, innovation, and entrepreneurship. A Life Senior Member of the IEEE, Charette was a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Award in 2008.