Surf the Web to find information about famous failures of management control. The following sites are good places to start:

http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/avoiding_project_failure.html http://www.ohnonews.com/perrier.html Failures you might like to investigate include: failure to control the costs of the Scottish Parliament; the UN’s failure to control granting of oil quotas to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq; failure of insurance companies to control the selling tactics used by their salesforces.