43 years of state IT project disasters – and they’re still happening.
Among the systemic causes of around £40bn of state IT-related failures are truth decay, excessive secrecy, no consequences for getting it wrong and the misleading of Parliament – a decades-old...
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By Tony Collins Last week Campaign4Change published a list of major IT projects where, when things went seriously wrong, Parliament was not told the whole truth and sometimes nothing like the truth....
View Article43 years of state IT project disasters – and they’re still happening. Part 3
Among the systemic reasons for around £40bn of IT-related failures may be truth decay, excessive secrecy, no consequences for getting it wrong and the misleading of Parliament – a decades-old...
View ArticleMPs demand fair compensation for Bates 555 in Post Office IT scandal – but...
By Tony Collins A cross-party committee of MPs has called on the government to commit urgently to “ensuring that the 555 are fully compensated for all of their losses on the same basis as other victims...
View ArticleFalse confessions in Post Office IT scandal to be investigated, says Sunday...
By Tony Collins Post Office lawyers are to be investigated over claims that sub-postmasters were bullied into admitting crimes they didn’t commit, said the Sunday Mirror yesterday. The Sunday Times...
View ArticlePost Office reveals estimates for its legal costs over IT scandal
By Tony Collins The Post Office’s maximum legal costs over the Horizon IT scandal are estimated to be about £177m – 16 times the compensation received by 500 victims whose High Court case exposed the...
View ArticleWe know how the Post Office IT scandal happened – but why?
The scandal’s fixable and unfixable underlying causes By Tony Collins Retired judge Sir Wyn Williams deserves much credit for the sensitive and thorough way he is chairing a public inquiry into the...
View ArticleMost of the underlying causes of the Post Office IT scandal are unfixable
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill By Tony Collins Why the Post Office IT scandal happened and some of its largely-fixable contributory causes...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Post Office IT scandal? Sir Humphrey gives Whitehall’s take.
Sir Humphrey, permanent secretary at the fictional Department for Administrative Affairs, and his minister Jim Hacker, discuss (below) the Post Office IT scandal. By Tony Collins Hacker: Ah Humphrey....
View ArticleDeeply affecting – ITV drama series on Post Office IT scandal may lodge in...
By Tony Collins “To my shame I didn’t know very much about this,” said actor Toby Jones. He was speaking at a press screening at BAFTA of “Mr Bates v The Post Office“, a star-studded ITV drama series...
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