I notice that BBC director general Tony Hall has committed to cutting bureaucracy.
Top of the agenda, apparently, is to tackle the BBC’s
meeting culture – halving the number of boards and steering groups. “We spend
far too long agonising over decisions that other organisations have learned to
make much more efficiently,” says Hall.
Sounds like a good start.
A useful follow-up would be to light a bushfire under the
forest of processes and procedures, rules and regulations, that were set up,
one by one, on the basis that they would increase control, reduce risk and facilitate
progress, but actually just get in the way.
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