Anatomy of Failure | Rail Edition
The pattern that matters.
No project fails for a single reason but each has a dominant failure reason that shapes everything else. California and HS2 are political economy failures with cost consequences. Others have assurance and accountability failures with schedule consequences. Identifying the primary failure type is not academic: it determines whether governance reform, procurement reform, or institutional reform is the right response. Treating all delays as the same problem produces the same non-solutions.
Artificial Intelligence: The Giga Programme Without a Brief
AI spending in out of control. More money has been spent on AI - roughly $1.6 trillion - in the past decade than on some of the largest infrastructure projects in the world while the infrastructure spending deficit continues to grow. Is this the right way forward for the world?
Off the rails: HS2 costs keeps going up
Every HS2 forecast in sixteen years was wrong in the same direction - always too low. Numbers that only ever climb were never estimates. They were a way to get the project approved.
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