world's largest iT project - more poison pills for Health Service?

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 [...]

Trillion Dollar Bonfire Night

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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 [...]

Media radar spots Bonfire

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The Times has finally woken up to massively wasted Government IT investment. Better late than never. The issue has been around for many years but still remained below the mainstream media radar, even when told about it. I don’t agree that over-optimism is the fundamental cause. The absolute root of [...]

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