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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.
Readers of this book get a no-holds barred perspective of Marshall’s magic – and an intriguing insight into the inner workings of the Redmond giant. Anecdotes from within the fortress walls are always interesting but the big payoff from BurningThe Ships is a real learning opportunity for those people and organizations who want to share in the largely untapped value of their intellectual property assets. This book is a primer for better business, in any field not just technology.
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  Picture credit: activefree I believe that the global financial crisis is getting too much attention, while the principal [but underlying and understated] cause: the crisis of integrity, is completely ignored. Collectively and individually the direct and indirect perpetrators of our current financial problems were clearly guilty of totally abrogating their integrity in favour of greed and wilful ignorance.  Picture credit: austins_irish_pirate It looks like the MOD has yet another poster child for The Trillion Dollar Bonfire. The latest Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts make sorry reading; for a number of reasons, not the least being the following damning statements:
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