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Trillion Dollar Bonfire ‘live in London’

Westminster Business School, London 10th June 2009. Limited places available. Event organised by the Sociotechnical group of the British Computer Society.
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 put forward.
This [...]

April 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Bonfire Evidence, Credit Crunch, IT Industry, Knowledge, Paradigm Shift, Strategy, cio-agenda | Leave a comment

Credit crunch is a sideshow

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.

April 5th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Bonfire Evidence, Credit Crunch, Integrity | 13 comments

one step forward, four steps back?

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:
“It is difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of the failure of the Joint Personnel Administration programme” and: ”The lack of clarity [...]

March 31st, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Bonfire Evidence, Integrity, Relationships, Strategy, Talent | Leave a comment

Politicians still don’t get IT

Just in case any government ministers read this story, here is the simplest possible advice to avoid IT blunders: Stop thinking about IT projects and start building effective information systems.
Computing reports “Government computer blunders are being caused by political priorities over-riding the advice of IT experts, according to MPs.” That statement simply re-inforces the crux of the [...]

March 27th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Bonfire Evidence, Integrity, Performance, Strategy | 5 comments

Squandered Opportunity

Channel 4’s Dispatches duly gave the audience tonight a full hour’s litany of woe, exposing public spending waste on a massive scale. 
But the programme was not Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire by another name, just a damp squib. 

March 9th, 2009 | Category: Bonfire Evidence, Credit Crunch, Integrity, Performance | Leave a comment

Bonfire reflections

Listening to a radio discussion this morning, the presenter observed that the Trillion is the new Billion. This prompted me to look back at my own records.
I first started writing about the Billion Dollar Bonfire on 27th December 2001 and decided to upgrade my focus to the Trillion Dollar Bonfire, on 6th July 2006.
When I first promoted [...]

February 28th, 2009 | Category: Bonfire Evidence, Credit Crunch, Perspective | Leave a comment

Media radar spots Bonfire

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 the problem is a [...]

February 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Bonfire Evidence | One comment

Caught in the slipstream of Change

These are turbulent times and common-sense dictates that, when the winds die down, we should not expect everything to be exactly as it was before. 
And yet trillions of dollars are being thrown at failed institutions in a desperate attempt to prevent essential change. We should realise that we are caught in the slipstream of Change and [...]

January 28th, 2009 | Category: Bonfire Evidence, Credit Crunch, Integrity, Paradigm Shift | 2 comments

Nanny State or Ninny State?

 Picture credit: Jude

I am wondering when someone will take the UK Cabinet behind the bikesheds and tell them the truth about the Internet. Andy Burnham, Culture Secretary, is the latest member of the UK Government to demonstrate ignorance about the way the world-wide-web works.  It’s no surprise that the Government wants to extend the Nanny [...]

December 27th, 2008 | Category: Bonfire Evidence, Integrity, Strategy | 4 comments
 
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