People don t plan to fail they fail to plan.
No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future. Garbage in garbage out. Instead they should ask whether those failed dotcoms made any business sense. We are at a point in the Great Web Gold Rush where the first failed prospectors are straggling back into their former hometowns with arrows in their backs and empty pockets. If we can learn anything from recent dotcom failure, it s that having a Web is no substitute for having a good product or service, good business processes and ample business expertise, plus a vision to bind these together and make them live.