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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

The extreme financial problems in are less about the settlement of an case & more about the disastrous implementation of an IT system.

While this has been discussed publicly in the past, its worth emphasising its critical & central role in Birmingham's problems.... like the IT problems at the Post Office, a large multinational firm seems to be causing havoc with impunity!

theconversation.com/how-birmin

The ConversationHow Birmingham city council’s ‘equal pay’ bankruptcy provided cover for ongoing Oracle IT disasterBirmingham’s spiralling budget deficits are the result of a decade of austerity and a disastrous implementation of a new Oracle IT system.