Originally Posted by
Tight Accountant
A number of contributors have blamed the Accountants for this outage, e.g. excessive cost cutting, lack of funds for IT kit. In defence of my profession, the BA Board makes the strategic, financial and operational decisons for the airline. It is there where you should be pointing the finger (as well as the Head of IT!).
...and boards of all companies are under pressure from their large investors to cut costs and increase dividends.
The majority of shareholdings are of orgainsations such as pension funds and investment companies acting on behalf of their clients who also want more more return and lower charges.
So in the end the real culprits are those pensioners, investors and the general public who demand higher returns from their savings or they will take their money away and put it where the returns are better and/or the costs are cheaper.
in other words ALL OF US.