I used the contact form on the Dept of Enterprise site last night to alert them to the Amazon-inania…  Here is their response… which includes the email and name of the Private Secretary to the Minister, which I’ve cut out for sake of privacy. If anyone wants them, comment and request (I will not post this …
Tuppenceworth directed me to a worrying bit of news – Amazon have gone totally insane. Having read the posts and comments over at Michele’s blog, I had to get my writing fingers out. Let’s start with the issues in the order they come to me: The point was made that if you contacted a baker …
Quality is defined as the ability of a product or piece of information to meet or exceed the expectations of its customers/consumers. Quality begins in the design stage, at the white board when you are figuring out how your process should work. I won’t waste my energy today rattling on about our Electoral Register issues, …
The Irish Times ran a nice editorial piece yesterday (2006/05/11) on the Electoral Register that highlighted the administrative failure that surrounds the Electoral Register. One good line: “IF the potential for abouse exists within the voting system – and it unequivocally does – the Government’s responsibility is to protect democracy and correct the electoral register” …
Those nice punters concerned citizens over at Tuppenceworth have taken up cudgels in defence of democracy and quoted from my post explaining scrap and rework to explain to their readers why they should prepare for a feeling of dé ja et ré ja vú… (french for “I’ve been here before, and I’ll be here again”). …
sheeeeeeeessssshhhhh! I’m just winding down from the last few days of excitement around the ICT Expo Information Quality Master Class. Larry English was over to do a Master Class on Information Quality. It went very well, and I think Larry enjoyed his visit to Dublin. Everyone seemed to get a lot out of what was …
Folks, amongst the things you shouldn’t do is mess around with your blog theme on a borrowed laptop at 01:00 in the morning when you should be sleeping. It causes you to make a booboo and a have to revert to a different template that doesn’t look as good. Nut bunnies.  Update at 2006/05/11: I …
Simon has thrown down a bit of a challenge…Â can I show why Information Scrap and Rework isn’t good enough because it seems like a sensible starting point… First off… let me provide a reference that should educate and delight (at least some of you) that explains what this Information Quality yoke is all about… …
Saw this on the Labour party website: Coughlan calls for the establishment of Irish Open University Interesting. What about: Oscail (www.oscail.ie) DCU’s distance learning school? What about UL’s courses in Project management that are offered over distance learning. And above all else… what about the Open University in Ireland? Perhaps what is needed is some …
Simon over at tuppenceworth has been on to me. Apparently my blog isn’t quite meeting his expectations. Can’t have that. Simon’s problem is that he isn’t quite sure what scrap and rework is. He says that it sounds bad to him, and I use it in a way that suggests it is a thing we …