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Elephant problems and fixes that fail : the story of a search for new approaches to inter-agency working

Author:

King's Fund, Gordon, Pat, Harries, John, Plamping, Diane, and Fischer, Martin

Publication date:

1999

Abstract:

This paper tells the story of the first two years (1994-96) of the London Health Partnership's primary care development programme. It describes the background to the project and its guiding principles, and then goes on to describe the diagnostic phase of its work and how systems theories influenced the ongoing ...
Projectitis : spending lots of money and the trouble with project bidding

Author:

Fischer, Martin, Plamping, Diane, Harries, John, King's Fund, and Gordon, Pat

Publication date:

1998

Abstract:

This paper reconsiders the meaning and impact of projects, the most common device for spending development monies. They argue that projects can distort the priorities of the host organisation. There are four aspects to this problem: the disruption caused to an organisation by the existence of a project; the project ...