Tuesday 7 July 2009

£200 million .... it's contagious!

Poor old Albert Einstein!

The list of mathematical mysteries awaiting his return from the loonybin is growing and growing.

None of the rest of us is a comparable internationally famous genius, but we can see the makings of yet another mathematical conundrum.

According to press reports Essex County Council is planning to follow us down the IBM / SAP crevasse, and guess how much they expect to save?

£200 million!!!!

What are the chances of that? With three times the population of Somerset (and three times the budget), they are going to save exactly the same amount!

Of course it is always possible that Essex did actually do one of those Business Case things, perhaps even in advance of the decision to go down the route of chaotic innovation (or should that be "innovative chaos"?). It's also possible that they have got a load of sums and evidence and whatever that could explain the £200 million.

It's possible.

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