If you're still reading by this point, you probably get it. Maybe you've heard of Moore's law about the increase in processor speeds or Metcalfe's law about the increase in the number of computers in a network. I'd like to try to articulate some here. The Ten Commandments of Organizational Computing. Thou shalt not expect humans to act like computers.
Computers largely proceed according to their algorithms.
Humans, however, often depart from their algorithms, or the business processes they are supposed to follow. People can be counted on to have their own agendas, and they are notoriously resistant to engineering or reengineering. Thou shalt not assume that because information comes from a computer that it's correct. This fallacy is almost as old as the original Ten Commandments, but we still suffer from it. But almost all information ultimately derives from human activity, and laundering it through a computer or a network doesn't make it clean.