Wednesday, June 19, 2013

How Management Ratonale fails at IT (and what to do instead)

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Apparently 70% of the Met Police's IT systems are obsolete , and it takes people half an hour to log in. But can the sustained, ongoing...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

"BBAs" et al: Do policy buzzwords attract or filter people?

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I tweeted this after the recent elections: Having a hard time taking elections seriously. — Scribe (@6loss) May 3, 2013 Now I'm read...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

UKGC13: Together we have the tools and guts to kill off antiquated democracies

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This year's UKGovCamp was a week ago, but Kids and Side Projects have made it difficult to write it up. Here goes though. I semi-...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

"Local Government has been Emasculated" (But so has everything else)

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From a systemic perspective, the central-vs-local government clash continues to be pretty bemusing. On the one hand, central government de...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Why the Public Sector Needs to Get Stupider

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...or "From Intellect to Intelligence". There are a handful of people whom I've never met in person, but talked to a lot ove...
Friday, November 16, 2012

PCCs, Nuclear Subs, and Mythological Engineering

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With the low turnout in the PCC elections yesterday,  and this interesting piece on the construction problems with the UK's new nuclea...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Kasabi, Nuclear Power, and the Data Developer Dichotomy

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Today's big news is that Talis are shutting down Kasabi , their linked data platform, moving away from semantic data , and losing Leigh...