How do you create a common language and approach across a myriad of projects? Manchester City Council has embarked on an ambitious project to do just that. Helen Beckett gets to grips with the Manchester Method
Trading off customer convenience against security, banks are reluctant to follow the lead of Alliance & Leicester and implement two-factor authentication
Financial services group Friends Provident has extended its use of Indian IT outsourcing supplier Wipro, handing the firm two more projects after its success developing a Friends Provident web portal for the processing of pensions applications by independent financial advisers.
When Shelley Rudman unexpectedly won a silver medal for her valiant efforts in the skeleton at this year’s Winter Olympics, the world knew she’d gained her unprecedented achievement for the UK in a matter of seconds. In fact, the world expected to know the results in that space of time.
High street chemist Boots is to cut spending on its supply chain and IT infrastructure by £60m a year as it prepares for its merger with Alliance UniChem.
Delivery drivers for MacFarlane Packaging will soon be able to use handheld devices to check customers' inventory and place orders directly into the firm's ERP system, as part of a pilot project.
A Shropshire council has become the first in the UK to put in place a system for electronically sharing assessments of vulnerable children with other public sector agencies.