
Government and IT: A recipe for rip-offs
That’s the title of a report by the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the UK House of Commons. It says “The Government’s over-reliance on large contractors for its IT needs combined with a lack of in-house skills is a “recipe for rip-offs”. The committee found that as a result IT procurement too often resulted […]

How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur
I get a lot of junk email that I normally ignore, but this one ticked me off enough to write about: Major Changes for Bay Area Entrepreneurs Workshop Changes? To what? I’ve never heard about this program before. Lowering the price of the Workshop by $500 to $1,000 Ouch! Lowering? And then it’s still $1,000? […]
Giving disruptors a bad name
This blog celebrates disruptors and on a couple of occasions in the past I have mentioned Ryanair as one. Now I regret having done so. They developed an operationally efficient airline like Southwest and passed along savings to consumers. But…