Saturday, May 26, 2007
The Hewitt Insultancy
As Channel 4 News reports that yet more sensitive, intelligent and competent people are refusing to have anything do do with the fabulously botched NHS reforms - this on top of the collapse of the unbelievably expensive IT system - it is worth reminding ourselves that Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, was once head of research at management insultants Accenture in the days when it was known as Andersen Insulting, a name it, naturally, had to suppress after the little unpleasantness over Enron and various other corporate embarrassments. I just think we ought to remind ourselves of that every few hours or so.
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To be fair, it had to suppress the Andersen name after it lost the rights to it to Arthur Andersen (the accountancy firm responsible for Enron). This happened a year or so before Enron came to light.
ReplyDeleteThe same Accenture that had such a lousy record with the NHS IT program that it withdrew. It's all OK now I'm informed ...
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