{"id":793,"date":"2011-02-23T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2011-02-23T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T14:24:59","slug":"university-is-not-a-business-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/university-is-not-a-business-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"University is not a business &#8211; discuss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-794 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px;\" title=\"university protest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/university-protest-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"university protest\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/university-protest-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/university-protest.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most charities, hospitals and university departments have a \u2018business plan\u2019 and \u2018business cases\u2019 these days.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we know that in many \u2018noble purpose organisations\u2019 these trappings of commerce can be disliked and quite a few would agree with the sentiments of the pictured Cambridge academic.<\/p>\n<p>However, what it takes to be \u2018business like\u2019 is important if you think things like customer focus, efficiency, rigour, accountability, etc matter in public and charity organisations with finite budgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Most charities, hospitals and university departments have a \u2018business plan\u2019 and \u2018business cases\u2019 these days. Yes, we know that in many \u2018noble purpose organisations\u2019 these trappings of commerce can be disliked and quite a few would agree with the sentiments of the pictured Cambridge academic. However, what it takes to be \u2018business like\u2019 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[64,21,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}