Officials at HM Courts Service say they have turned around a failing £447m project to provide a national case management system for magistrates courts - a scheme that is 16 years late and will cost nearly three times more than expected.
Firms may have to revise their use of closed-circuit television to monitor workers following the publication today of a new code of practice by the Information Commissioner's Office.
The bottom-up process of identifying and approving projects in most organisations is highly emotional and intensely political. The result is often a plethora of projects doomed to failure. Project portfolio management is emerging as a solution.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has taken enforcement action against Marks & Spencer, with the retailer ordered to encrypt all hard drives by April 2008.