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 programme.
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I celebrate the fifth of November as Trillion Dollar Bonfire Night, in the hope that everyone seeks better ways of managing and organising their undertakings.
For centuries the United Kingdom has celebrated the fifth as Bonfire Night, in memory of the foiled Gunpowder Plot, where Guy Fawkes and his associates set out to cause catastrophic
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The devil’s guide to iT is for people who want to make iT simpler. Here you will find valuable insights and amusements to ease your iT pain. The guide caters for everyone, expert and novice alike, regardless of whether you: use, run, buy, sell or make iT.
Hard times call for hard thinking, supplemented by effective action. Achieving and sustaining our future relevance in the currently turbulent economic context will need a radical new approach to the way we deliver value to our enterprise stakeholders.
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A good first step would be to scrap the role of Chief Information Officer and create
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Would you ever go to work completely naked? Would you be comfortable if your colleagues stripped off too and you all went about the daily routine in your business birthday suits? And, if the proceedings were filmed for TV broadcast?
Well that’s exactly what David Taylor (aka the Naked Leader) expected some unsuspecting brave workers to do recently.
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