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The Move Toward Shared Services: An Examination of the Business Models and IT Trends Driving Public Sector Adoption of Shared Services
White Papers They bridge legacy and newly developed applications across diverse organizations to provide the public sector with more efficient means of serving civilians, employees, business partners, or any other end-user base.
[October 30, 2009, 2:30]
Public sector bemoans under-resourced, ineffective IT
News A poll of 50 public sector finance directors found that while the management decisions of local authority CEOs are strongly influenced by government key performance indicators (KPIs), current IT systems are not effective in sourcing and analysing...
[June 18, 2003, 10:23]
Public sector panned over approach to IT projects
News In the public sector you get this willingness to grind onwards towards the abyss and some projects go on long past their sell-by date. There was also agreement among public-sector figures that political pressures should not be allowed to influence...
[March 27, 2009, 9:30]
India's IT services sector hits refresh
News Arno Franz, a partner and Asia-Pacific managing director at sourcing advisory firm TPI, said the Indian IT-enabled services (ITES) sector employs more than 700,000 people and accounts for about 35 percent of the business-process outsourcing (BPO...
[September 19, 2008, 15:34]
IT services sector posts solid growth
News In a study published earlier this month, market researcher Gartner said IT spending rose from $536bn in 2002. IT services, which range from hardware maintenance contracts to application development to full-fledged outsourcing of technology...
[October 26, 2004, 12:50]
Warning sounded over public sector IT spend
Talkback Problem with demand management is usually the definition of demand being used. More often then not such demand is in reality determined by how much or how high the support is for a given demand within the organization.
[June 23, 2005, 22:45]
Union official voices concern over public sector IT jobs
News Graham Steel, senior national officer commercial sector for the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), said that automation and outsourcing are combining to create an "hourglass economy". He made the prediction in the PCS Commercial Break...
[November 7, 2005, 8:40]
Public sector's IT waste disposal
Talkback Wow I didn't think they let common sense see the light of day in IT. Hope it works in the detail as well as the big picture.
[November 28, 2005, 19:29]
Public sector IT staff get bigger pay rises
Talkback It was the same when I was there but the mistake was made assuming that better managers needed better salaries to attract them, however they just kept the same sad management at obscenely excessive salaries for their abilities.
[May 16, 2006, 11:24]
Public sector IT staff get bigger pay rises
Talkback It may sound like a good pay rise, but considering the base pay of a public sector worker is way below that of their counterparts 'outisde', it really doesn't reflect the true story. Due to this massive difference, it is increasing difficult to...
[May 15, 2006, 17:14]
Financial sector suffering IT skills shortfall
News The most hankered-after non-IT skills are: knowledge of sector and project management, followed by leadership. After finance, the sector most likely to be short of IT pros is telecoms, where almost half (49 percent) of respondents reported vacant...
[December 16, 2008, 8:18]
Public sector strike threatened over lack of IT performance improvement
News The UK's biggest civil service union has criticised the government's IT plans as it ballots members on industrial action over the Gershon Efficiency Review. The Gershon Efficiency Review, published earlier this year, recommended staffing cuts...
[October 4, 2004, 16:15]
All public-sector IT projects flop!
Talkback The government has a terrible record on delivering IT projects on time and on budget. It has more to do with poor management, analysis and consultancy than the technical suitability of Linux. It's a shame the article doesn't reflect this!
[November 17, 2006, 10:14]
Camera phones give IT sector a lift
News The demand for mobile phones with built-in digital cameras is giving a boost to the IT manufacturing industry and could soon overtake the digital camera market. Japanese manufacturer Sharp said on Wednesday that sales of the liquid-crystal displays...
[August 1, 2002, 11:49]
Post-Merger Integration Creates One of Germany's Largest IT Service Providers for the Financial Sector
White Papers As a consequence, IT service provision for each was consolidated to form one of the largest IT service providers for financial services in Europe. In 2001, two major financial institutions in Germany - a bank and an insurance company - merged.
[November 6, 2007, 0:00]
Fiorina predicts steep growth for IT sector
News It was a five-times-GDP-growth-industry in the late 1990s, and that was unsustainable. But it's not what it used to be. HP's share price has slumped since it acquired Compaq whereas its closest competitor, Dell, has thrived.
[November 30, 2004, 17:10]
An Asian Giant in the Consumer Sector Finds Out the Real Nature of the Company It Almost Signed a JV Deal With...Just in the Nick of Time
White Papers The client, Asian consumer sector giant, had almost signed a Joint Venture (JV) with an Indian partner. Attraction was the large Indian consumer market. Some senior managers were not fully comfortable with the partner.
[December 1, 2006, 0:00]
Govt ponders CIO role
News The UK government is looking at appointing a CIO to crack down on public sector IT failures and bring stronger IT leadership and strategic direction across departments. Given the scale of any government IT project and the history of high-profile...
[September 4, 2003, 11:40]
Ageism rife in IT industry
News Ageism is alive and well in IT according to a survey released this week, although mounting evidence suggests the UK is suffering a severe skills shortage in the sector. The IT sector is traditionally very young, but the irony is that there is a...
[October 17, 2000, 11:57]
Government ICT use under fire
News Public sector IT is suffering from confusion, miscommunication and mismanagement, according to an influential report published on 29 March, 2005. There is also a lack of communication and poor management within public sector organisations says the...
[March 29, 2005, 13:10]
