I’m currently reading Oliver Campion-Awwad, Alexander Hayton, Leila Smith, and Mark Vuaran of Cambridge Computer Lab’s case study on the NHS National Programme for IT, an old topic of this fine blog’s. There is so much in common here with Think Defence‘s epic blog series on the disastrous FRES project it’s not even funny. In…
Read More The West Yorkshire snack vortex, his personal shopper, NHS computing, and FRESSo, ISIS. Through the open newslist it turned out that a lot of you could put off reading about Jimmy Savile until later if it meant hearing about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and why it seemed at the time to have the beating of the Kurds. Let’s begin with the geography, or…
Read More ISIS: thinking on a scale set by the landIt’s a little while since we did one of these. Candidates include: Think Defence has finished their epic series on the disastrous FRES procurement. It has much in common with classic IT project failure, for example, the NHS NPfIT. Also, we wanted to have at Eric Pickles on a related issue and we might yet…
Read More Open newslist 7LinkedIn’s algo just recommended me this: The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s Mobile Technology Programme works on a wide range of exciting initiatives – from conducting independent research and developing bespoke mobile apps to forging innovative public-private partnerships and implementing regional projects – all with the aim of utilising mobile technology to support women entrepreneurs…
Read More Career opportunitiesSo an Indian TV crew managed to film a Hamas rocket team doing their thing. First of all, wow. That’s the use of the gazebo in urban warfare, right there. More seriously, I reckon the launch site is in dead ground from two or three sides, covered from view by the buildings and trees, unless…
Read More Watch an actual Hamas rocket launch, with #combatgazeboOne for Erik: Woollard’s writing suggests a more tragic story, where these principles were well understood in the factories of Britain’s industrial heartland, only to be lost in the decades that followed. It seems likely that the principles were preserved or possibly rediscovered by Toyota…
Read More One-link postI’m feeling positively blog-happy after getting away with an Israel/Palestine post, so what about another one? This one is also about rockets, just on a different scale. A lot of strategic concepts have an odd kind of fractal quality, keeping the same form at different scales. We saw how the rocketing was, in a sense,…
Read More Even more rockets and wilder speculationI have just noticed that if you leave a comment on the New York Review of Books‘s blog and it goes into moderation, they return the following message: Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by The New York Review of Books. Put like that, it almost seems an honour.
Read More Just becauseThe last time we did this was a bit thin. Anyway, tonight 7pm and the Constitution in Camden Town.
Read More TYR DrinksIs there anyone who didn’t predict that the Big Society would descend into shameless grantsmanship, chancerism, and possibly illegal party financing? Go read; the list of projects is unimprovable, The Thick of It meets Siobhan Sharpe meets the Alan Partridge pitch scene. Much of the money ended up with Tories or ex-Tories and some of…
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