{"id":1207,"date":"2008-08-21T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"11730 at http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com"},"modified":"2008-08-21T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T14:00:21","slug":"giving-consultants-a-bad-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"Giving consultants a bad name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard from an old friend of mine today who is, once again, having trouble with the people managing his computers. As a hotel owner, he doesn&#8217;t have the technical ability to manage his own machines, so he has to rely on the services of external computer experts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut these so-called experts are continuing to cause him stress. He is on his sixth company so far and thought, having had them recommend by his local government business development department, that this latest team would be reliable.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/giving_consultants_a_bad_name\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=GkWyHJ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=GkWyHJ\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/370965152\" height=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard from an old friend of mine today who is, once again, having trouble with the people managing his computers. As a hotel owner, he doesn&#8217;t have the technical ability to manage his own machines, so he has to rely on the services of external computer experts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut these so-called experts are continuing to cause him stress. He is on his sixth company so far and thought, having had them recommend by his local government business development department, that this latest team would be reliable.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/giving_consultants_a_bad_name\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=GkWyHJ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=GkWyHJ\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/370965152\" height=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}