A lack of "space for reasoned arguments"

I can find no "professional" reports of BBC HR Director Lucy Adams' performance at the "HR Summit" in Birmingham yesterday.

There's this admiring analysis by Ian Pettigrew of Kingfisher Coaching - some extracts:

In a process of trying to balance shareholders and organisational needs (whilst working to save significant levels of money), Lucy now believed that she should have pushed harder to make sure that stakeholder voices were heard throughout this process.

Lucy regrets that there wasn’t more space to make reasoned arguments but made a great point that when you are paid good money to do a senior role, you have to make a judgement call and then live with the consequences, accepting that we won’t get every one right. 

Lucy suggested that the HR doesn’t have an exclusive role as the conscience of the organisation, suggesting that sits with the head of the organisation, but that HR should challenge and help to make sure that all viewpoints are considered.

• 2pm update: There's also this report, from the blog of People Management, the organ of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.