IR35
All big consultancies aboard the gravy train! Choo choo!
One of the UK's top civil servants has claimed the government is closing the £100 million funding gap created by the Treasury when it offered £300 million for a vital ERP refresh in the November 2021 spending review. Speaking to MPs, the chief operating officer for the civil service and permanent secretary for the Cabinet …
It would be a good time to have a "reunion" of all of the major projects over the last 15 years to remind each other of the "lessons learned" that may not have been implemented.
A free bar would more than pay for itself, to get people talking about the projects in a relaxed atmosphere, and where they may become more indiscrete than usual
As soon as you go for buying packages instead of in house development you're forced into this Red Queen's race of upgrades no-one wants to provide extra functionality no-one needs at eye watering cost using money you'd much rather spend on something more productive. But what's the alternative? I doubt any government department has the capability any more to run a pure in house application development team, even if doing so was actually affordable, and outsourcing development of a from scratch custom system to the likes of Capita or Fujitsu or whoever sounds remarkably like the worst of both worlds.
When we once needed battleships for the Navy, we built them for ourselves; , when we needed aircraft to defend the nation we built them for ourselves; when we needed a computer to track the messages of our enemies, we built it for ourselves; when we needed radar to track the movement of aircraft attacking our nation, we built them ourselves. The United Kingdom once had an exceptional ability to invent, design and manufacture whatever we needed. Not only that, but we were the leaders in such industries. We created them; ships; railways, aircraft, computers, radar, nuclear power stations. . . you name it, we invented it, designed it and manufactured it. So what went wrong?
All I can do here is challenge everyone to present herein their understanding of the decisions that have, very effectively, destroyed our capability to remain a world leading manufacturer of whatever we need to remain competitive. Come on, everyone, Why?
"Come on, everyone, Why?"
Voting for cretins hell bent on making a quick buck for themselves, not giving a fig about normal people.
Adoring real estate investment as magic money makers.
Looking down on engineers and other makers willing to get their hands a bit dirty, while admiring nonsense spouting academics.
Feeling inferior to your "betters" thanks to the ingrained class society, but voting as if you were better than others.
Shall I go on?
That's an unexpectedly profound question. On balance I'd say it's a shibboleth. I would wonder what someone's IT experience covered if they hadn't absorbed that one by osmosis. E stands for enterprise so it might also be a small company v big company marker
Enterprise resource planning is just one of these bread and butter concepts that sits in the background and quietly makes the world go round