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Government IT procurement moves to Cabinet Office

...will be run by three "business leaders": Tate & Lyle chairman Sir Peter Gershon; Tesco executive director Lucy Neville-Rolfe; and Martin Read, a non-executive... Read more

16 June, 2010 by David Meyer
The Weekly Aliyot 1.2.03

The Weekly Aliyot 1.2.03

brief overview of each week's torah portionby: Gershon Avrohom Read more

5 March, 2011

Spending watchdog attacks Government's record on IT

...deliver successful IT programmes of this magnitude," said the NAO. Sir Peter Gershon was commissioned in August 2003 to conduct a review of efficiency in... Read more

17 February, 2006 by Andrew Donoghue

Government starts 'rationalisation' of IT systems

...on Thursday. Reid said that the move is in line with the Gershon efficiency review, which is expected to recommend setting up shared IT services... Read more

21 May, 2004 by Kable

Government seeks new IT spending supremo

Headhunters have started the search to replace the influential Peter Gershon as CEO of the government's procurement watchdog the Office of Government... Read more

6 October, 2003 by Andy McCue

Public sector strike threatened over lack of IT performance improvement

...s IT plans as it ballots members on industrial action over the Gershon Efficiency Review. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union are deciding... Read more

4 October, 2004 by Kable

Doubt cast on £26bn IT savings claim

Claims that £26.5bn has been cut from public spending under the Gershon programme to cut Whitehall costs have been called into doubt by a... Read more

30 July, 2009 by Nick Heath

A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow

Opinion: Gershon findings were a reaction to IT costs and failures to deliver benefits... Read more

20 June, 2007 by Paul Bentham

Government freezes new IT projects over £1m

...these areas". Chancellor George Osborne said it is based on Sir Peter Gershon and Martin Reed's pre-election work for the Conservative Party on... Read more

25 May, 2010 by Kable

Tories' £12bn savings plans include IT cuts

...asked ex-Logica head Dr Martin Read and civil servant Sir Peter Gershon for advice on how to improve public-sector efficiency. Read and Gershon... Read more

9 April, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Socitm unveils 'Council of the Future' project

...five percent the public sector has aimed since the publication of the Gershon Review in 2004. The biggest savings, of up to 90 percent, could... Read more

13 October, 2009 by Kable

Case study: The 'Why not?' approach to Vista

...driven by both internal pressures and external ones such as the 2004 Gershon review, which stipulates that, by 2008, all public authorities must reduce internal... Read more

18 December, 2006 by Cath Everett

New Symbian CEO named

...of disappointment about the appointment of a classic British executive." Sir Peter Gershon, independent non-executive chairman at Symbian, said in a statement that Clifford... Read more

18 May, 2005 by Jo Best and Sylvia Carr

Government IT stuck in post-election limbo

...who takes over from Paul Boateng, will oversee the implementation of the Gershon Efficiency programme Read more

9 May, 2005 by Kable

Public sector outsourcing boom to continue

...alone could reach £7bn a year "directly as a result" of the Gershon Efficiency Review, the December 2004 report says. Paul Smith, Kable's research... Read more

18 April, 2005 by Kable

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