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Socitm Appoints New President
News All four will start their one-year terms immediately, well before the government launches its second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), which aims to identify future investments and reforms in government spending.
[April 30, 2007, 17:38]
Critics Attack 'dangerous' Gov't Comms-snooping Plan
News A significant proportion of the programme investment over the Comprehensive Spending Review period will be used to test feasibility and reduce the risk associated with implementing the proposed IMP solution," said West.
[July 15, 2008, 17:30]
IT Spending: What The Analysts Think
News Taking back control of hidden technology spending that still continues at the business-unit levelA shift away from the trend of spending more on maintaining existing technology vs.investing in new technologyA review of options that take advantage...
[October 6, 2003, 15:00]
Gov't Stung By 'poor Value' Outsourcing Deals
News Lacklustre controls on spending over the full lifetime of government outsourcing contracts are leading to "poor value for money" because public-sector organisations are lured by low upfront costs, claims Compass Management Consulting.
[April 7, 2008, 9:20]
Spending Watchdog Attacks Government's Record On IT
News Sir Peter Gershon was commissioned in August 2003 to conduct a review of efficiency in the public sector. His findings were published in July 2004, and based on these results the Government announced an efficiency programme from April 2005 to cut...
[February 17, 2006, 13:55]
Police IT Organisation Set To Be Scrapped
News The decision follows an end-to-end review of PITO by the Home Office, which began in January 2004. The review, which all non-departmental public bodies must go through, concluded that despite some successes over the years, "PITO has largely failed...
[June 27, 2005, 16:05]
What Does Homeland Security Spending Buy?
White Papers This paper performs a detailed review of homeland security's spending practices. First, it takes a look at the economics of homeland security spending and contrasts that with the politics of decision-making in this area.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Personal CFO
Downloads It helps you track your expenses, learn your spending pattern, manage your spending, compare expected expense vs.actual, and review side by side reports. Personal CFO is designed to help you take control over your personal finance world.
[September 19, 2005, 10:02]
Treasury To Scrutinise Gov't IT Spending
News Government spending on IT is to come under scrutiny as part of a wider Treasury review of national projects. Some IT systems could be overhauled as a result of the review but it is unlikely they will be subject to any major changes, said a Treasury...
[February 4, 2008, 7:37]
NASBO Analysis: Medicaid To Stress State Budgets Severely Into Fiscal 2003
White Papers Based on NASBO's just completed preliminary review of fiscal 2001 and 2002 state expenditures, total state Medicaid spending increased by 11.6 percent and 11.7 percent, respectively, and now amounts to more than 20 percent of total state spending.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Coventry City Council Cuts Overhead By US$414,000 By Migrating 24% Of Spend To Online Purchasing
White Papers Coventry City Council wanted to streamline and e-enable financial and purchasing processes following a government Best Value Review assessment and improve budget management and gain advance visibility of spending by introducing commitment accounting.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Public Sector IT Spending Climb To Continue
News Government spending on technology will continue to grow for at least the next four years, with local authority spending outpacing that of central government. Government IT spending will grow at an average 5.3 percent until 2009, compared with 4.5...
[August 3, 2005, 16:50]
Prioritize Help Desk Requests With This Call-level Chart
White Papers Level 2 and 3 staff can focus on their areas of expertise, while Level 1 staff members avoid spending time working on problems they're unlikely to solve. Directing callers to the best resource minimizes handoffs and delays.Techs can review the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Webcast: The Secure Remote Access Imperative For Healthcare
White Papers Brown, Vice President, Forrester Research; Chris Witeck, Director of Product Marketing with Aventail; and James Hilliard, Moderator for TechRepublic review IT trends in healthcare. Quantitative trends in spending and governance
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
ShootSend
Downloads Stop spending money on SMS/MMS. You can also fully review your messages; both sent and received, on the web portal. New version 3.2.4. ShootSend is a mobile application for any Java phone, which allows you to send pictures, voice, and text messages...
[March 22, 2007, 18:31]
Quick Take: The CIO And The CEO
White Papers But they were spending more time on tech then they had five years earlier — even Jack "I've never used email" Welch, on his way out at GE, started talking about the digitization of business. Michael Porter, every CEO's favorite academic, got into...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Treasury Pledges IT Efficiency
News In the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which aims to identify which investments and reforms the Government will make over the next three years, the Government will pledge a three percent efficiency saving in public spending.
[May 14, 2007, 16:50]
Brown Won't Tamper With Government IT
News As part of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), which is expected to identify future investments and reforms in government spending, central government will have to deliver five percent year-on-year efficiency gains.
[June 29, 2007, 7:44]
Sharp Rise Predicted In Local Gov't Tech Spend
News The government's 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review set tough spending targets and Socitm claims better use of IT could help organisations meet these aims. Local government IT spending is predicted to hit £3bn during 2007/8 — a nine percent...
[January 4, 2008, 9:29]
FCO On Course To Deliver IT Efficiency Savings
News Related efficiencies to the programme will now be realised outside the Spending Review 2004 period, but the FCO expects savings from other projects to "more than" compensate. In a review of its annual report for 2006-07, published on 19 November...
[November 20, 2007, 8:30]
