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There comes a time in the growth of all new things that they achieve their destiny and stop being new and according to one public sector leader oversees, ‘Digital’ has reached its digitised destination.
The UK Department of Education’s Chief Digital Officer has called for a new name, declaring ‘Digital’ to have arrived with the way of the world these days indeed digital.
“We live in the digital age; all services should be digital,” the Chief Digitally-despondent Officer said.
“Having a Chief Digital Officer is a sign of a lack of maturity in an organisation,” she said.
Sadly, the ex-digital officer is unable to come up with a replacement name but pointed to go-ahead organisations like Google who have de-digitised their digital denominations, embracing “Head of Customer Experience” instead.
As PS News readers have a long history of solving the problems of the world PS-sssst! is sure they will be able to compose carefully constructed commendations for names to displace the discharged ‘Digital’ and could be cajoled into contributing them to the controversy.
Fabulous book prizes on offer for the best or most entertaining ideas. Send to [email protected].
Google, which is among a growing number of businesses eschewing the title in favour of alternatives such as “Head of Customer Experience”.
Juggling TSOCs and Cs
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Opening up PS News’s “We Don’t Think He Meant to Say That” file this week to find the Federal Minister for Home Affairs making an appearance announcing a new program within his Department aimed at crackdown on the use of, and profits from, illicit drugs.
Unveiling the Home Affairs Illicit Drugs Action Plan, the Minister made clear the Plan would help repel the scourge of drugs across the nation and impact on the criminal groups supplying drugs to the community.
“Spearheaded by the Commonwealth Transnational, Serious and Organised Crime Coordinator (TSOC), the Plan will tackle illicit drugs, with a focus on the trade of methylamphetamine and its crystalline form ‘ice”, the Minister said.
“TSOC costs the Australian economy more than $47 billion each year.”
PS-sssst! thinks that’s a lot of money for one Coordinator!
We don’t think the Minister meant to say that so we doctored his comment slightly in this PS report.
Aircraft crash
And while on the subject on incriminated un-meaningness, Lorna K of Canberra picked up another questionable quote in a story about the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) pointing its finger at the US Federal Aviation Administration for not being stern enough dealing with a dangerous aircraft part that had led to engine failure on major airlines.
“The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has called on the United States Federal Aviation Administration to follow in its footsteps and require airlines to install faulty hardware in Airbus A330 engines rather than make it voluntary,” the PS news report reported.
“Surely ATAB didn’t say this…” Lorna queried.
And she was right.
ATSB didn’t say that but a PS News journalist trying to simplify a very complicated story did.
While PS News apologises to the ATSB for its editorial error, bringing it to our attention has won Lorna a PS-sssst! Pack of goodies (book, pen-lite and T-shirt) for her trouble.
Thanks Lorna.
The newsworthy fault wasn’t only in the aircraft engine!
Giving it away – twice!
To Rama’s weekly giveaway now in which a number of lucky readers have the chance to win the self-development book Leading Well: 7 Attributes of Very Successful Leaders by David Pich and Ann Messenger and another number to win double passes to see the movie Martha: A Picture Story starring Martha Cooper and Margarida Pandolfo.
To be among the book winners all we needed do was tell Rama what the seven attributes of very successful leaders were, and to win the movie tickets, tell her the name of the most iconic photographer we’ve never heard of.
The answer to the book quiz was 1 Integrity, 2 Emotional Intelligence, 3 Ability to Inspire, 4 Authenticity, 5 Self-Awareness, 6 Respect and 7 Decisiveness, and to answer the movie quiz: Martha Cooper.
The correct entrants for each competition, who were also first out of the PS News Barrel of Booty were:
For the books: Fiona P from the Federal Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development, Michael M from the National Indigenous Australians Agency, and Amelia H from the Department of Social Services’.
For the movie tickets: Scott M from the National Department of Health, Gwen T from the Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Martin D from the Department of Defence, and Ahmed M from the ACT Government.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who took part.
For another chance to join Rama’s Army of well-off winners, simply follow this link to her latest giveaway.
Good luck to all who do.
Regimentally undressed
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And finally, bear a thought for the newly commissioned Army officer assigned to a jungle-based regiment in the near Pacific.
Keen to make an impression on the troops on his first day, the enthusiastic new leader went to great lengths to look the part for his undercover assignment.
Sadly he missed his first day’s work, as well as the impression of his soldiers, when after washing and ironing his new camouflage uniform in readiness for the exercise, he couldn’t find it!
Till next week…..
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