According to Tony Collins, the UK Government CIO Council will be asked, by the Cabinet Office, to approve an interim ICT strategy that looks fundamentally flawed before the ink is dry: a shotgun wedding strategy.
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New Government IT Strategy - fundamentally flawed?
effective risk management 
Systemic risk is the silent killer of organizations and often goes undiagnosed until it is almost too late, just like uncontrolled high blood pressure in the field of human medicine. Continue reading article » gimmicks will always get you in the end So Lehman Brothers are accused of managing by gimmicks, specifically – according to the BBC – an accounting “gimmick” known as Repo 105. “This is a legal accounting device that involves shifting around assets to reduce the size of a company’s balance sheet.” Picture credit: Okinawa Soba Apparently they got away with this gimmick for many years, until it Continue reading article » The UK Chancellor is expected to massively scale back the world’s largest IT project, in a desperate effort to save money. picture credit: Mike Rawlins For the past five years, I have believed that the NPfIT has been the poster child for the Trillion Dollar Bonfire – as a poorly conceived, massively flawed and consequently expensive programme. Why do Continue reading article » Picture credit: mint imperial The credit crunch is making it harder to get funds for technology investments so here is my own IT business case evaluation tool to help you make sure that your business case really has strong enough legs to stand up, before you pitch. As an interim director I have had to review hundreds of business Continue reading article » |
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