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fedsron2us Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 02:28 PM
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Rip-Off
Edited on Wed Jun-15-05 02:44 PM by fedsron2us
My book of the year so far is David Craig's 'Rip-Off - The scandalous inside story of the management consulting machine'.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1872188060/qid=1118863245/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/202-2262768-5955027

I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know how corporations and governments fritter away millions of pounds on pointless business process reorganisation and useless IT applications. Using some of the quotes in the book to search the web I think that I have a pretty good idea which company used to employ him. You will be delighted to know that the UK government, in their infinite wisdom, recently gave them a multi billion pound contract to run the computer systems of a major department of state. Read it and weep.

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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 02:31 PM
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1. Thanks for the rec. I love shit like that.
Business crime, con games, legal corporate crime, and the history of gambling are some of my fave things to read about. Will order forthwith.
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