David Craig

For over 20 years, David Craig has worked for and competed against some of the world's best and worst management consultancies. He has sold consulting in 15 countries in Europe, US and Asia to almost 100 organizations, including Disney, Mobil, Dupont, Roche, Air France, Eurotunnel, The NHS, CapGemini, Unilever and many others.

David Craig is the author of four books on management and organizations: Rip-Off! The scandalous inside story of the consulting money machine (2005), Plundering the public sector (2006), Squandered: How Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money and The Great European Rip-off (2009) More details are available on www.snouts-in-the-trough.com

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30 March 2009
30 March 2009

Making IT Work in the Public Sector

The Information Technology Reform Act, commonly known as the 'Clinger-Cohen' act, spelled the end of the 'Wild West days of federal IT'. By contrast, in the UK, the cowboys are everywhere in the public sector since the British Labour Government decided to bypass the Civil Service and use their favorite management and IT systems consultants to implement a host of unmitigated and shameful IT disasters. … Read more