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It’s happened again. For the umpteenth time I went to a compulsory briefing for an RFP (Request for Proposal) from a government department. And for the umpteenth time it was a sham and a shambles.

Times are tough. No question there. But how do you get the IT budget that allows you to keep the lights on, while also delivering real value to your organisation? We all know that the first casualty of IT budgets is any work that seems unnecessary (like all of it!) and also we get sweeping directives to “cut xx%” from the IT budget and get back to us once you’ve done it (we’ll probably cut some more).

I was doodling through my favourite website, Wikipedia - and I came across an article on “National IQ”. In 2006, Dr. Richard Lynn and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen published a book called “IQ and Global Inequality”. In the book they list the average IQs of 185 nations and make an argument that international differences in current economic development are due in part, to differences in average national intelligence as measured by average national IQ.