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Lavarack’s Law

Number one: 94% of all technical problems are political.

Number two: 99% of all political problems are due to self-interest.

James (Jim) Lavarack was an engineer working for IBM in the 1950s and 1960s in the team that was working toward building the infrastructure in Australia to bring in the internet.

Jim worked with the international, Australian and State Governments to identifying the infrastructure and cultural change required to effect change and bring new technologies into Australia.

Through undertaking this work, he came to the realisation that technical problems are more about the people that are tasked with implementing them and managing them, thank is was about the technology itself.