No more fiefing

BBC DG George Entwistle has raised expectations of a real structural change in the organisation, with a talk to staff working in Future Media.

According to staff organ, Ariel, he said  'The territorial and fiefdom approach has come down from the top of the BBC. That's what I need to fix first.'

Apparently, at his first, newly-reduced management board meeting he said that he didn't want it to be a meeting where you 'don't own up about your cock ups' for fear that colleagues will gloat or go off and tell their teams.

But don't get over-excited - there isn't yet a plan 'We will learn how we want to be different organisationally in due course'. I suspect that means that the Deloitte guy has it pencilled in for Year Two.

• One organisational change already made still confuses me. In his first move, George apparently busted the Operations Division (which allows Caroline Thomson to get a redundancy package). Now it emerges that Dominic Coles is to be described as Operations Director. Clearly quite a different job..  I'm sure George will have run that one past HR.