Shotgun Wedding strategy for Government IT

jayne by lamont_cranston on flickr

According to Tony Collins, the UK Government CIO Council will be asked, by the Cabinet Office, to approve an interim ICT strategy that looks fundamentally flawed before the ink is dry: a shotgun wedding strategy.

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are recruitment agents a taboo subject?

recruitment poster by Metropolitan Police on flickr

This is a sincerely serious question, without any inferior motive: I wonder why we don’t see more people writing about their experiences with recruitment agents? Is it just a co-incidence, or is it a really taboo subject that candidates and publishers deliberately avoid writing about?

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Business lessons from Oxidative Phosphorylation

1912_toc2 by TheJCB on Flickr

Be careful what you wish for, because your wish may come true… It’s an old saying I know but not one that I always bear in mind. However, I rashly invited my followers on Twitter to select a topic for me to blog about and I promised to publish an article within the hour, after choosing one of the suggested Continue reading article »

going round the table is a waste of time

white horse round table by id-iom on flickr

So-called ‘face time’ is increasingly precious to all of us, which makes me wonder why we routinely waste so much time, at the beginning of meetings, by ‘going round the table’ to introduce ourselves to each other.

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Pitching an idea?

coming soon by ellbrown on flickr

Pitching is the most commonly used sporting analogy for making a business proposal but do we ever stop and think about how many different interpretations can be made of the term?

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