Saturday, October 19, 2013

Half term report

BBC sherpas have taken their calendars on holiday. The task - how to schedule events over the eight or so weeks to Christmas and keep the upbeat mood the DG seeks.

On the slipway we still have the Price Waterhouse Cooper report into what went wrong with DMI; the first report from Dame Janet Smith on the creepy side of BBC culture; and a promise of indicators to save £100m more a year before Danny Cohen spends it all.

The McKinsey report on simplification is in, and unsurprisingly reveals that most important decisions are currently taken in the shadows, with the DG's Office acting in the manner of Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers, and several candidates for the role of MiLady De Winter. The bonfire of the boards is not far away, and will cheer the staff enormously.

Still to come - further redistribution of staff to Birmingham, Salford and Glasgow. Not so cheerful.


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