Imagine the fun, just seven days after George Entwistle's appointment as DG-Designate, as former rivals and new supplicants assemble for the meeting - the high point of which, it seems, is a workshop on "risk appetite", including, yay, breaking into groups and reporting back. It must seem aeons ago; would a risk assessment in the 1970s have stopped Auntie hiring Jimmy Savile ? Did the introduction of service companies as vehicles for paying on-screen talent have a traffic light dashboard ? And newboy George's heart must have sunk at this one: "The Board acknowledged that although reputational risk sat across the risk themes it would be appropriate for the Director-General to ‘own’ this risk".
Onwards. Imagine the frisson, as they discuss gender and diversity targets. Who, I wonder, prompted the note "that it would be useful to consider gender balance when looking at succession planning, particularly at lower levels within the organisation."
Imagine the puzzlement as "Mark Thompson and Zarin Patel left the room briefly at this point, returning for the Local TV Multiplex paper".
Imagine the joy from the output side as CFO Zarin Patel reports "good progress had been made in the divisions and it would be prudent to reforecast the budget plan in the autumn". Trebles all round, Jo Malone on the way again for talent, airline tickets afore Easter, etc.
Imagine too, discussions with John Smith on The New Commercial Framework - still obscure at this stage, but presumably, fairly clearly, a framework without the current CEO in the driving seat.
- A simple sentence may have important consequences for BBC staff at Caversham, where international wire services and broadcast output are monitored for news, political and business intelligence: "It was agreed that public service money should not be used to fund BBCM[onitoring]".
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