By David Knights and Hugh WilmottThe book contains 9 papers that usefully review the management significance of the practice and trend of ‘re-engineering’. It is a particularly valuable read for all those thinking about embarking on re-engineering programmes, especially as the success rate for such programmes appears to be about 30%.
Published by Sage 2000. 196 pp. Price 45 pounds (hard) 15.99 pounds (soft)

Following the successful tagging of prisoners on parole, the idea is being extended to goods to reduce property crime. Companies are being invited to bid for a slice of the 4.5 million pound budget to develop marking and tracking systems based on electronic data tags.By building chips into goods such as videos, hi-fi, computers and car radios at manufacture it will be possible to establish whether the goods have been stolen. 

Parents, teachers, employers and others are being given the opportunity to say what they want from educational research. The National Educational Research Forum, an independent group set up in 1999 to provide strategic direction for educational research nationally, has published a draft strategy for consultation.Educational research has a poor image. Key customers frequently see it as irrelevant.