Nanny State or Ninny State?
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I am wondering when someone will take the UK Cabinet behind the bikesheds and tell them the truth about the Internet. Andy Burnham, Culture Secretary, is the latest member of the UK Government to demonstrate ignorance about the way the world-wide-web works. It’s no surprise that the Government wants to extend the Nanny [...]
Whitehall Farce is not funny
Despite the oft-vaunted remarks of Gordon Brown that “new technology” will deliver much-needed efficiencies in the Civil Service, we still see more evidence to the contrary. Let’s hope that someone actually does something about the latest PAC report on the Dept for Transport shared services fiasco. Excuse me if I don’t hold my breath. The latest [...]
Blind-sided, again. Why?
It seems that Bernard Madoff’s $50 Billion “pyramid” investment scheme is little more than a scam, albeit on a massive scale. The fall-out is likely to be global and the UK news reports state that major banks are “frantically trying to find out if they have exposure to the fraud;” which means of course that [...]
World’s largest programme cutting quality corners?
Delivery to Time, Cost and Quality are three standard measures for projects and programmes. It looks like they are all at risk for the world’s largest civil IT programme. The ambitious National Programme for IT (NPfIT) underway in the UK’s National Health Service is running years behind the original schedule and the budget has been regularly [...]
Are you brave enough to “Tell ‘IT’ Like It Is?”
I think anyone with real experience of corporate IT has got memories of at least a fistful of howlers that would give salutary lessons to others. But we usually keep these nightmares to ourselves, safely behind closed doors, instead of sharing information about our mistakes that could really help others, by providing wider opportunities for [...]
Survival of the quickest
In my view, the worldwide financial crisis is clear evidence that many fundamental parts of our global economy lack effective information systems. The circumstantial evidence for this is the dreadful ease with which so many have been blind-sided so quickly by events.
That’s why I was pleased to see Richard Dennison’s blog this morning, which makes a [...]
