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The grubby day-to-day frustrations of digital change in Whitehall
- Editor in chief 09 Sep 2016 -
How to break up GDS without breaking up GDS
- Editor in chief 23 Aug 2016 -
The only certainty of Brexit is uncertainty
- Managing Editor 15 Aug 2016
Change is hard. Few business or IT leaders would disagree with such a statement. But learning the lessons from change should be the easy and obvious outcome. Failing to learn the lessons from ...
The Cabinet Office and its latest recruit – new Government Digital Service (GDS) chief Kevin Cunnington – are adamant that GDS will not be broken up. Cunnington told us so in his first blog post of ...
The reality of what Brexit means is starting to sink in: no one knows for certain what will happen. Six weeks after the UK voted to leave the EU, the weak pound is already causing IT costs to rise ...
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No matter what happens next, GDS's long-term future is not assured
- Editor in chief 29 Jul 2016 -
BT needs to go the extra mile, to keep the last mile
- Editor in chief 26 Jul 2016 -
How digital will Theresa May's government be?
- Editor in chief 20 Jul 2016 -
Brexit silver linings exist for UK technology - but they are hard to find
- Editor in chief 27 Jun 2016 -
Where are all the women in UK technology?
- Editor in chief 24 Jun 2016 -
The voter registration website crash - fingers point to software problems ...and the Foreign Office
- Editor in chief 09 Jun 2016 -
The incredible shrinking Hewlett Packard - where does it go next?
- Editor in chief 27 May 2016
No matter what happens next for the Government Digital Service (GDS), you can assume three things will be true: 1 - The Cabinet Office will make an announcement full of praise for GDS and express ...
Imagine this. It’s the early years of the 20th century. While many people still get around using a horse and trap, cars have become affordable and more and more people are buying them. It’s clear ...
Now that the UK government – well, apart from the Labour party - seems to be returning to some semblance of business as usual following the extraordinary political upheavals of recent weeks, the ...
If there’s one thing you can credit the UK tech sector for, it’s a generally long-term view of the future. In this time of huge Brexit uncertainty, that pragmatism is perhaps the main cause for ...
Since Computer Weekly launched its list of the most influential women in UK IT in 2011, the number of initiatives championing and encouraging women in technology has grown enormously. Through ...
The government has not yet released an official explanation for the crash of the UK voter registration website earlier this week – but Computer Weekly has learned the likely cause. How ironic it ...
In 2011, Hewlett Packard’s annual revenue was $127bn, making it the largest technology company in the world by sales at that time – yet its market worth was a comparatively meagre $42bn. It had ...
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Here's the obligatory 'What IT leaders can learn from Leicester City FC' story
- Editor in chief 20 May 2016 -
Next in the digital revolution: commoditisation of processes
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2016 -
Liam Maxwell: The man who checks the homework
- Editor in chief 19 Apr 2016 -
Universal Credit shows it is time to make all major government projects open and transparent
- Editor in chief 15 Apr 2016 -
In the digital revolution, the Luddites are the ones in charge
- Editor in chief 07 Apr 2016
As a football fan, it’s not often I get to indulge in a bit of technology-football crossover, but the Leicester City fairytale is too good an opportunity to miss. It seems it’s also a story that ...
One of the questions most commonly asked of technology journalists is, “What’s the next big thing in tech?” It’s easy enough to answer – at the moment, you would point to emerging trends such as ...
Former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude used to call Liam Maxwell "the man who checks the homework". First as an advisor to Maude, then as government CTO, Maxwell was responsible for making ...
After four years of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spending taxpayers' money on legal fees to prevent the release of key Universal Credit documents, the only surprise revealed by their ...
Between 1811 and 1813, English textile workers and weavers conducted a campaign of protests, sabotage and occasional rioting against the spread of new technology that threatened their livelihoods ...