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Managing the Integrated Children’s System

David Wastell uses the UK's Integrated Children's System as a worked example to show how a blind faith in IT (he calls it 'technomagic') can wreak havoc with large-scale, government programmes. The following is taken from his book Managers as Designers in the Public Sector.