
I never cease to be amazed at the power of Mr Smith’s brain. No – not you Peter – the other Mr Smith – primary […]
I never cease to be amazed at the power of Mr Smith’s brain. No – not you Peter – the other Mr Smith – primary […]
In the run up to Christmas and my passing over the Spend Matters UK/Europe reins, we’ve been featuring some of the briefing papers we’ve written […]
(With thanks as ever to Jonathan Lynn and Peter Jay, the brilliant writers of the immortal BBC comedies Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister). […]
Here is an excerpt from a Paper we published with Trade Extensions a couple of years ago - you can still access the whole paper […]
It’s ten years since I was first involved with the Office of Government Commerce’s Procurement Capability Reviews, in which small teams of civil servants and […]
In going through or archives to find some interesting “blasts for the past” to feature through August, we came across this from June 2011, which […]
… and talking of Pepsi, as we wrote here in our article principally about United Airlines, how on earth did that dreadful advert get made? […]
(Let's start the week with a bit of humor - or even humour - with thanks and apologies to the writers of Kung-Fu…) Good morning, […]
(Read part 1 here). We were about to set off for Whitehall and the Cabinet Office building in our quest to discover the fate of […]
“Holmes, what do you know of the Civil Service Commission"? I asked my friend that question one sultry August afternoon, as we sat in our […]
One of the biggest technology and change programmes in the UK government is the DWP Universal Credit programme, which is looking to totally change the […]
Microsoft launched an Artificial Intelligence, machine-learning Twitter-bot persona last week, “Tay”, supposedly an “18-24” young woman. Tay started well, but within 24 hours, “she” was […]