It looks like the BBC's Digital Media Initiative, aka "Don't Mention It", is still struggling. A letter to internal house mag Ariel says using the front end of the system, called Fabric, to find archive film for programmes is slower than all previous systems. "Research that would have taken an hour now takes four. With the licence-fee-freeze squeezing budgets and production schedules tighter and tighter, that's time I don't have."
When last looked at by the National Audit Office, the economic forecasts were not good; full implementation, expected by 2017, was going to cost £134m, against original estimates of £82m, producing benefits of £95m. Minutes of the Executive Board in the past year tiptoe round sorting things out, and promise a new action plan. I understand the project is now being directed from Salford, where it had been hoped that Fabric would mean "new ways of working", rather than "new workrounds".
Which of the new team will field this hot potato - Anne Bulford (Technology and Money) or James Purnell (Digital) ?
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