18.11 Final Word

The risk-managed modernization approach can be applied to most modernization projects. The case study presented throughout this book is but one example, and the specifics of how this project was planned and managed may not be appropriate in your modernization effort. However you proceed, in the words of John Perry Barlow, "Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine." ^[2]

^[2] "Cassidy," written in Cara, Wyoming, Feb. 1972. First performed on March 23, 1974, at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California.