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Why thinking beyond ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ might pay business...
By David Bicknell Most organisations in the public sector are continuing to reduce their costs. 2012 brings a continued diet of re-asserting control of costs and delivering operational savings to cope...
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Is Francis Maude starting to spin – without realising it?
By Tony Collins Francis Maude is, perhaps, the most effective Cabinet Office minister in decades. If the business world divides into two main types of character, black and white, and grey – neither...
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Should Francis Maude say “no” to so many projects?
By Tony Collins When Jack Straw was Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, he told MPs on the Constitutional Affairs Committee in 2007 that when he abandoned projects there was a fuss at...
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How London IT director saves millions by buying patient record system.
By Tony Collins An NHS organisation in London has bought an electronic patient record system for less than a third of the cost of similar technology that is being supplied by BT to other trusts in the...
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Francis Maude talks open govt – and Whitehall does the opposite
By Tony Collins “If people do not know what you’re doing, they don’t know what you’re doing wrong.” – Sir Arnold Robinson, Cabinet Secretary in a discussion on open government in Yes Minister. Francis...
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Cabinet Office promises unprecedented openness on risky projects
By Tony Collins The Cabinet Office has defended its decision not to publish “Gateway” review reports on the progress or otherwise of large and risky IT and construction projects. Gateway reviews are...
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Civil service reform plan – real change or a tweak?
By Tony Collins The civil service reform plan is to be published this afternoon, at 3.30pm. The Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and Sir Bob Kerslake, the head of the civil service, write about...
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Big IT suppliers and their Whitehall “hostages”
By Tony Collins Mark Thompson is a senior lecturer in information systems at Cambridge Judge Business School, ICT futures advisor to the Cabinet Office and strategy director at consultancy Methods....
View ArticleAspire: eight lessons from the UK’s biggest IT contract
By Tony Collins How do you quit a £10bn IT contract in which suppliers have become limbs of your organisation? Thanks to reports by the National Audit Office, the questioning of HMRC civil servants by...
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