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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]
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]
Public sector strike threatened over lack of IT performance improvement
News It's certainly a recipe for disaster as they seemed to have plucked the figures out of the air without thinking about the impact on projects that are likely to be cancelled. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union are deciding whether...
[October 4, 2004, 16:15]
Broadband unbundler targets public sector
News So far, Updata has contracts with two local authorities -- Bedfordshire and North Somerset -- and is running pilot projects in Pembrokeshire and Dorset. Updata has no immediate plans to sell SDSL directly to businesses, and the rules governing the...
[July 30, 2004, 12:40]
Public Sector Programming Prowess or Paralysis?
Blog He assured me that for the type of business analytics solutions his company is proffering, councils like Westminster are seeing a three month turn around time - a time span that reflects and compares favourably with projects in the private sector.
[September 20, 2007, 20:26]
Webcast: Using EPM to Measure and Manage in the Public Sector
White Papers Organization can manage projects & programs better and make better decisions. With the right processes, the right tools customized to the requirements, metrics that are meaningful to the organization can be available to and easily interpreted by...
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
Public sector IT demand on the up
News The demand for IT workers in the public sector has soared, according to figures released on Wednesday by an employment trends research company. Statistics from the CWJobs quarterly IT skills index showed the number of permanent IT jobs in the...
[March 2, 2005, 16:05]
Public sector outsourcing boom to continue
News The UK public sector is set to outsource a further £20bn worth of services - representing a growth of 50 percent over three years, according to research from the public sector research, publishing and events firm Kable.
[April 18, 2005, 17:00]
Large public-sector Linux project flops
News Birmingham City Council began the project — one of the largest public-sector Linux projects in the UK — in May 2005 to evaluate the potential of open-source software. Although the OSA has supported successful projects such as a 5,500-desktop PC...
[November 13, 2006, 11:35]
Gov't told: Cut IT projects and save public cash
News Becta, the technology organisation for the education sector, could be scrapped and spending on consultants halved, the report claims. A report by the Institute of Directors and the TaxPayers' Alliance says that cutting government IT projects could...
[September 15, 2009, 8:57]
NAO: How to get government IT right
News Government auditors have published a set of guidelines on how to deliver successful public sector IT projects. Challenges do remain for government in implementing public sector IT projects — the biggest of which is the embedding of best practice...
[November 20, 2006, 8:48]
10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
Talkback In the first project I worked on, CRMS (Case Resource Management System) in the NHS, I saw financial and project control in the hands of a private consultancy company (still currently involved with public sector ICT projects at a high level).
[December 7, 2005, 12:28]
Government IT 'unfairly slated'
News Sir Peter Gershon said that such projects are quietly delivering greater efficiency across the public sector, despite the enormous publicity given to failures. Gershon's independent review of public sector efficiency focuses on new technology to...
[February 4, 2005, 15:05]
Public-sector IT spend predicted to fall
News Major public-sector projects, such as the NHS IT programme and Criminal Justice IT programme, have impacted the software and IT services spend over the past two years. The UK public-sector software and IT services market will begin to wilt as big...
[September 10, 2007, 16:08]
Reduce IT projects failure by implementing well-defined processes
Talkback I very much welcome the NAO’s report, as the government’s shake up of IT should help address some of the complications we have seen with many IT projects in the public sector. This is a great way for the public sector to show initiative in driving...
[November 21, 2006, 16:23]
Government u-turn on private finance for IT
News The government has scrapped the use of controversial Private Finance Initiative deals for public sector IT contracts following a catalogue of costly high-profile projects. Within the report a study of responses from 11 operational public sector PFI...
[July 17, 2003, 15:53]
E-government threatened by IT underspending
News At the moment, IT projects across the UK public sector are being run on a knife's edge, with projects selected almost entirely on a least cost basis. The company already works with 1,500 government bodies worldwide, and has worked on many British...
[July 10, 2002, 12:17]
Gov't appoints tech tsar to cut IT costs
News Read said he wants to help the government catch up with the private sector, which is generally considered to achieve better value for money on complex computer projects. The government has drafted in a former blue-chip chief executive to help slash...
[June 24, 2008, 8:57]
Europe extends open source resource
News The resource is aimed purely at the public sector, and the Commission believes it will be successful because of the large number of similar projects being conducted by local and national governmental organisations across the European Union.
[October 12, 2006, 17:25]
Open source in government, and where to start
Blog Incidents like the NHS's National Programme for IT and Becta's software procurement procedures have done little for the public sector's reputation in IT projects in the UK. As it happens, open source is a good choice for public sector software on...
[April 17, 2009, 19:34]
