Leading by example, thinking critically and developing capability for all
The Public Accounts Committee have opined that the FiReControl project wasted £469 million pounds. A sobering report, all the more so if you were one of the people that worked on the project. How could things go so expensively wrong? Continue reading FiReControl’s Failure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13329634 News articles like this are very misleading. One might well report that police officers earn more than McDonalds employees, which is largely what it says. Neither public nor private sector are homogeneous, and there are few jobs that are Continue reading Some thoughts on Public vs Private Pay Comparisons
I was somewhat surprised tonight to discover that HMRC apparently refuse e-mails from members of the public (AKA customers) with tax enquiries. This was started because I got a coding notice (dated 21 February 2011) that said I owed some Continue reading You Cannot E-mail HMRC?
After a couple of sweaty days (mostly from the gout and related medication rather than the assignment it has to be said) I finished off my first (of 6) Tutor Marked Assignments (TMA) for the B310 Making Sense of Strategy Continue reading First Assignment Submitted!
Some musings about where I’m at so far with an OU course about making sense of strategy that I started (offiically) on 5th February 2011. Continue reading Making Sense of Strategy (Open University B301)