JoAnn Hackos, PhD CIDM Director www.infomanagementcenter.com Abstract and review Nadim F. Matta and Ronald N. Ashkenas, Harvard Business Review, September 2003, pp. 109-114. As many of us already know from experience, big projects fail, despite good intentions and lots of traditional project management record keeping. Matta and Ashkenas recommend a technique they call rapid-results initiatives