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The cigarette packet school of project management 
Anybody got a spare fag packet? I’m collecting them for a friend who is running a government project planning seminar next week and we need at least one packet between two so that each delegate can get the full, hands-on, scribbling experience. I suppose we could use split beer mats, but I am more of a traditionalist when it comes Continue reading article » 
Media flurry about Government IT is simply an unhelpful smokescreen, the focus on high unit costs and poor procurement disguises fundamental issues: policy and lack of effective systems strategy. 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 » Marshall Phelps has made billions of dollars for his employers and fundamentally changed the outlook of some very hard-faced businesses along the way. Burning The Ships describes how Phelps took the lessons he learned making a fortune for IBM and repeated the trick for Bill Gates at Microsoft. Readers of this book get a no-holds barred perspective of Marshall’s magic Continue reading article » Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society. Picture credit: *spud* Colin Beveridge will set out a credible, compelling vision for a new, post-IT, paradigm that is within the embrace of all stakeholders. This is thought-leadership at the leading edge and your opportunity to challenge the views put forward. |
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