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Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B by Spooky23 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:24PM (#16499002)
States were successful in moving Medicaid enrollment to outsourced providers. THis was probably seen as building on that theme.

I think IBM bought an Irish company that did similar work in the UK, so it probably looked achievable, and a potential Cash cow for other states. (Accenture was able to sell child welfare solutions at great profit in the 90s) Its a great business as it generates alotmof complimentary sales and services.

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Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B by jessaustin on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:56AM (#16501821)
Accenture was able to sell child welfare solutions at great profit in the 90s

In the 90s that would have been Andersen Consulting rather than Accenture. Although having worked with them at the time and found them worse in every way than IBM is described in this thread, I wouldn't be surprised to learn they profited at the expense of poor children.

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