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Oops – UK Government pulls plug on ailing £11bn NHS IT programme

by Andrew White  |  September 22, 2011  |  1 Comment

This program was meant to have provided for a “fully integrated electronic care records system across the NHS”.  As reported today in ComputerWeekly.com, it seems this was just too hard to do.  The decision was to cancel the national program and encourage each regional GP’s to choose their own IT systems.  Ouch.  So one central [...]

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New Research Published – How to Innovate through Standardization…

by Andrew White  |  February 3, 2009  |  Comments Off

Jeff Woods, one of my colleagues, just published a note describing his interview of Andrew McAfee – see Gartner Interviews Andrew McAfee on Why Investment in Enterprise Applications and ERP Matters.  The July/August 2008 issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) included an article by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, entitled “Investing in the IT [...]

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