By James Kwak
Last summer, Lawrence Baxter wrote these two posts about the toxic combination of bad software—actually, software in general, since no software system is perfect—and too-big-to-fail banks. Baxter knows whereof he speaks, as he was previously a technology executive at a very large bank. Here's what he has to say about it:
I don't care what a CIO or even a CEO might say: if they claim that they can eliminate the real risk of such missteps, they just don't know what they are talking about no matter how good they are. And if such missteps are inevitable, then we simply cannot avoid the question whether the dangers posed by large, complex financial institutions and systems could outweigh their benefits.
Think about that the next time you hear some CEO talking about his company's state-of-the-art technology.
