I didn't say innovative. I said radical. Radical ideas change the game, and hence now prone to be PVT'd. Radical was the BBC making me a computer when I was 12.
To test your thesis, let's examine Creative Archive. The BBC has had nearly 5 years, and trials galore, to answer the question "is this a good idea? is it good value for money? Do licence fee payers actually want it? Do they need it?" Yet the BBC has not put it forward to the BBC Trust for a public value test, let alone launched it. Why? I'll suggest a hypothesis: i) it's too radical for you to dare apply for a PVT, let along actually do it ii) it's too obviously the right long term answer for you to kill it off. (As in, Brian, you were right - apols - it's in the long grass) On 26/03/2008, Nick Reynolds-FM&T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could not disagree more. > > There's plenty of innovation possible at the BBC without having to go > through a PVT. > > The new system is much better than the new one. BBC management need to > have someone saying: "this might be a cool idea but is it good value for > money? Do licence fee payers actually want it? Do they need it?" > > The problem is inside people's heads and not the fault of the Trust. You > can have radical ideas and implement them if you want to. You just have > to try harder. > > http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2008/01/neils_interrogation_of_ly > ons_s.html#comment-882642 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Loosemore > Sent: 26 March 2008 16:55 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] Embracing the torrent of online video > > > > > The next step should be the BBC asking the BBC Trust to do a public > > > value test on their proposals. > > > > > > "public value test" = device for kicking things into the longest > grass. > > Public Value Test = new hurdle the BBC has to pass before any new > service launches, as set out in new Charter. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/framework/public_value_test/index.html > > You can draw your own conclusions as to what this means in terms of the > BBC's speed to market / appetite for radical ideas. > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
