gimmicks will always get you in the end

managing by gimmick

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.”

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Apparently they got away with this gimmick for many [...]

world's largest iT project - more poison pills for Health Service?

The UK Chancellor is expected to massively scale back the world’s largest IT project, in a desperate effort to save money.

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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 [...]

how to evaluate IT business cases

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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 [...]

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