Einstein : Not everything that can be counted counts. And not everything that counts can be counted.

Tuesday, 8 May 2007

An end to targets ?

It seems that someone within the ranks of those who can, has. Someone who can sort stuff, has decided that targets are to be scrapped. Deputy Chief Constable David Warcup from Northumbria Police has decided that the targets and their resulting league table were not an effective way of measuring performance. He also stated "We would absolutely discourage anybody from using their powers simply to meet targets."

For the full article please hit the link.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/6579677.stm

Let's see, will this stop things down our way ? You might think so, but I couldn't possibly comment. I suspect that we will still have our multitude of duplicated information to submit so the management can assess who, in their opinion, is seen to be lazy & workshy.

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