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There's still a place for paper in a digital world - just don't drown
Comment Mismanagement of these can lead to significant cost burdens, inefficiencies and security compliance risks. Quocirca's Louella Fernandes explains how to keep them under control. Managing and accessing the huge volumes of... [15 Jul 2009]
Naked CIO: It's time compliance quit crippling SMEs
Comment It started with the implementation of additional compliance - brought about by accounting mismanagement and a lack of controls at financial institutions - which businesses then had to comply to. The Naked CIO asks: could... [05 May 2009]
Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms
White Paper Whether the data center mess is created over years of mismanagement or whether the cable-choked data center is inherited, solutions for both quick fixes and longer term evolutionary changes exist. Data center... [08 Apr 2009]
Construction Resource Management: Improving Contractor Business Performance
White Paper Even more troubling is the realization that the mismanagement of tools, equipment and materials runs much deeper than the direct costs of replacing these resources. In light of the increasingly challenging business... [23 Mar 2009]
The Impact of the newly emerging field of Financial Data Quality Management (FDQM) on Group Reporting and Performance Management Processes
White Paper Yet, mismanagement or neglect of underlying balance information or interfaces can place the integrity of the whole process in jeopardy. Data quality management could be regarded as the less glamorous end of the Reporting... [18 Mar 2009]
Prisoner database hit by delays, budget blowout
News However, like several government IT projects before it, the C-Nomis project has suffered from budget blowouts, delays and mismanagement, according to the government's spending watchdog. An IT project designed to give a... [12 Mar 2009]
IT helps sloppy contract handling cost UK £160m
News The report, from the National Audit Office (NAO), blames Whitehall mismanagement of service contracts in IT, facilities management and business process outsourcing for lost potential savings of between £160m and £290m... [18 Dec 2008]
Department for Transport "incompetence" over shared services
News Yet, despite the extent of mismanagement in this case, no individuals have been dismissed or been properly held to account. The Department for Transport (DfT) has been accused of "stupendous incompetence" in its... [16 Dec 2008]
£273m in IT projects axed by UK
News The saga of government IT is a huge list of failure after dismal failure - they never seem to learn from their mistakes and mismanagement. Almost £300m-worth of public sector IT projects have been binned in the UK,... [20 Oct 2008]
IBM Financial Markets Industry Models Support for Trade Processing in the 'On Demand' Era
White Paper They need to be assured that they will not lose their investment because of insolvency, mismanagement or operational difficulties at the financial institution. Investors in securities markets want to know that their... [09 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes
Comment My real reaction to the CFO is cynical - after all, the stereotypes of my role and department derive from the exceptional mismanagement of our accounting colleagues back in the days when they had oversight of the IT... [07 Apr 2008]
HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?
News And Robert Wingfield, from London, called it "another example of the hopeless mismanagement and lack of respect and consideration for the population by our government". The news two CDs containing the confidential... [22 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Data breach row, hotel iMac, wi-fi piggybacking: yay or nay?
Comment Another example of the hopeless mismanagement and lack of respect and consideration for the population by our Government. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and... [22 Nov 2007]
Leader: Heads should roll when gov't IT goes wrong
Leader As one silicon.com reader pointed out in a comment posted on the site: "Until civil servants are made to accept personal responsibility for their advice and actions, with sacking closely linked to failure and incompetence, then we will... [07 Dec 2005]
Government tech use slammed
News Public sector IT is suffering from confusion, miscommunication and mismanagement, according to an influential report. The Work Foundation report says there is a "mismatch" between frontline staff who think the people... [29 Mar 2005]
