Today’s edition of Computing reports the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ambitious plans for yet another Child Maintenance Payment system. Apparently the last attempt cost the taxpayer about £450 million and resulted in the Child Support Agency (CSA) failing to collect approximately £.3.5 billion in outstanding maintenance payments. That’s almost £4 billion of wasted money by my reckoning.
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Computer Weekly reports that a major London hospital, Barts, could pay a very high price for problems associated with the implementation of new systems, part of the NHS programme for IT. If I read this article correctly, Barts is forecasting an additional spend of nearly £1M for temporary staff AND an income shortfall of £3M for this year. Which makes Continue reading article » The Sunday Times reports today (27th July) that HMRC is to write off £2.8 billion as a consequence of problems with a computer system. So that’s another 5.5 billion dollars thrown on the Trillion Dollar Bonfire, without so much as a blink of an eye. According to the newspaper, the latest HMRC accounts apparently show a further planned write-off Continue reading article » The annual cost of project failure in the European Union in has been estimated at €142 billion according to research by Dr John McManus and Dr Trevor Wood-Harper. The research defines project failure as not meeting any or all of the following success criteria: cost, time, quality and original requirements. According to the report, which looked at 214 projects between 1998 and Continue reading article » From Computer Weekly: “The government has wasted at least half a billion pounds on overrun IT projects, according to figures collected by Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Vince Cable.” Congratulations to Vince Cable for highlighting more symptoms of the Trillion Dollar Bonfire. What we really need though is for Government to change their behaviour. Taxpayers and politicians need to ensure that Government bodies adopt Continue reading article » |
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