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Comment Many people reading this will condemn my suggestions for playing office politics. But what is office politics? Politics is played by everyone in every... [19 May 2000]
Is office politics killing grid computing?
News Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. Analyst house Quocirca's latest Insight report into... [20 Apr 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: How the CIO differs from the traditional IT director
Comment He is good at supplier management and not into politics. A CIO is all about leadership and politics. We are talking about a back office orientation versus a front office... [08 Dec 2004]
Public menace: why things aren't jolly in the land of giant PFIs
Comment You can't take politics out of politics. So when Liberal Democrat MP, Simon Hughes, tabled a question in the House of Commons seeking to identify the shortcomings in the Home Office, no... [23 Nov 1999]
UK execs suffer from loneliness
News But the main gripe execs have is office politics, with 43 per cent citing this as the worst element of business leadership. Loneliness is the worst part of the job for a third of the UK's senior business... [24 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.08.09
Round-Up Camp one - the keen beans, eager for promotion who can't bear to miss out on office politics and who check their email every day, even while at the beach (or in the caravan). And then there's the other... [21 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up The great man is seen interacting with fellow executives as well as celebrities from music, entertainment, movies and politics. From music to politics. However, the highlight of the keynote was probably... [11 Jan 2008]
Election '05: High-tech v doorstep canvassing
Comment A few minutes later and it's a case of bundling into a couple of cars and heading back to the campaign office for a bite to eat and to pick up more leaflets for the afternoon deliveries - well over 30,000 will be pushed... [05 May 2005]
Privacy campaigners outraged by electoral register scandal
News The main purpose of the electoral roll should be for politics. The regulations for access to the electoral roll are being finalised by a Home Office team, which is due to publish recommendations by August. [12 Apr 2001]
ID card row gets nasty
News The government was accused on Thursday of playing dirty politics after it refused to disclose the fate of almost 6,000 responses to last year's consultation on entitlement cards. It emerged on Thursday that this request... [05 Jun 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up Their tweets reveal the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of politics today, with searing comments straight to the public and unmediated by spin doctors, including "Take part in our parking survey" and "Back home in... [03 Jul 2009]
Blair gives techie-spice a job he really, really wants
Comment Alexander was catapulted into politics in 1997, winning Paisley South in a by-election following the suicide of MP Gordon McMaster. Politics runs in the family, Alexander's elder sister, Wendy, is... [12 Jun 2001]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up But no, Cameron wasn't finished building his new reputation as the bad boy of British politics. The guidance note on the government use of Twitter went viral this week after being placed on the Cabinet... [31 Jul 2009]
Why so many public sector IT projects fail
Comment None of this is helped by the fact that many public sector IT projects are driven by politics, says Andrew Smith of Mercury Interactive. But in a recent report for its FiReControl project, which is designed to... [14 Mar 2005]
The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users
Comment Because of the politics I must remind my team to be squeaky-clean during this period because others will be on the lookout for double standards - as always. Why do we provide PCs and internet connectivity for staff who... [04 Feb 2008]
