Paul Wallbank is one of the leading business technology experts in Australia and will be headlining at our National Speaker Showcase on February 19 2013.
I first heard the term "throwing the problem over the fence" from a telco project manager a few years ago, it describes how modern organisations shift risk to others.
Throwing the problem over the fence usually involves contracting out a task, the philosophy is once the contract is signed delivery is no longer management's problem, it's now the responsibility of the contractor. Once the job is over the fence it's out of sight and out of mind.
Governments, financial institutions and most corporations have become very good at throwing their problems over the fence.
