On 13/02/2012 22:57, Tim Streater wrote:

Christ on a bicycle, you dope. I'm not talking about ****ing bonuses,
I'm talking about the fact that in any private company that expects to
thrive, and survive, theres's gonna be a person, or team, whose job(s)
it is to examine how the company does things and work out ways to
improve them. And save money. And therefore keep the company alive. And
in the long term stop it going bust.

Public sector has the same thing when it's run well.

Yes - and a screw up because the public sector is crap at managing
suppliers. It's easy for a wide boy to underbid and then, oh dear, there
are "unforeseen extra costs", and oddly enough the contract allows me to
charge those back to the saps in the public sector - who didn't write it
tightly enough in the first place.

Private sector is entirely capable of doing that too.