Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Recent Posts
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Will 2016 be the year we find out which 'traditional' IT suppliers survive the digital revolution?
- Editor in chief 08 Jan 2016 -
GDS must respond openly and honestly to NAO criticism
- Editor in chief 11 Dec 2015 -
All of us need to play our part to influence the role of technology in the UK economy
- Editor in chief 04 Dec 2015
The combined revenue of the five biggest global corporate IT suppliers declined by more than $12bn over their past four financial quarters - at a time when the use of technology worldwide is ...
MPs are often at their most lyrically creative when they sit on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and are given free rein to criticise those they see as miscreants wasting taxpayers' money.So ...
Influence is a wonderfully subjective measure by which to gauge successful people in the UK technology scene. Influence can be negative as well as positive. You might be influenced by a particular ...
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GDS gets a £450m budget boost - and a £3.5bn incentive to prove digital really works
- Editor in chief 27 Nov 2015 -
Software is never perfect - and that includes the Post Office's controversial Horizon system
- Editor in chief 20 Nov 2015 -
Spending review: GDS continues but big cuts ahead in Cabinet Office
- Editor in chief 20 Nov 2015 -
Spending review will show how - or if - digital is the future of the public sector
- Editor in chief 13 Nov 2015 -
Women are breaking the glass firewall in IT - but they need the men in IT to do more
- Editor in chief 05 Nov 2015 -
Goodbye old HP, hello new HPs - but for how long?
- Editor in chief 30 Oct 2015 -
Digital transformation will not happen across local government - so what's the alternative?
- Editor in chief 22 Oct 2015
Even people close to the Government Digital Service (GDS) seem surprised - pleasantly so - by the announcement of a £450m budget over the rest of this Parliament. While it's still not clear exactly ...
Software goes wrong. Every developer knows that. Even the most thoroughly tested piece of software can come up with an unexpected set of circumstances that cause it to behave in an equally ...
The Cabinet Office is set for higher than average budget cuts in next week's spending review, while the future of the Government Digital Service (GDS) appears to be secure - but smaller.Chancellor ...
November 25th is highlighted in red ink for any IT leader in the public sector. That's the day the chancellor, George Osborne, reveals the winners and losers in the 2015 spending review, which ...
One of the most pleasing aspects of this year's UKtech50 - Computer Weekly's annual list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT - is that over one-third of the nominees shortlisted for the ...
On Monday 2nd November, HP as we know it ceases to exist. The IT supplier that once was too big to fail, becomes two companies that, if recent history is anything to go by, will be individually ...
We often hear local government talked about as if it were a single entity. It's particularly common in digital circles - "We need a digital transformation of local government!" being a typical ...
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DVLA shows the long-overdue maturing of outsourcing in government
- Editor in chief 12 Oct 2015 -
I finally made it to Windows 10 - and can't really see why any businesses would do the same
- Editor in chief 02 Oct 2015 -
Ofcom review should aspire to a broadband infrastructure that is the envy of the world
- Editor in chief 25 Sep 2015 -
The nonsense about robots taking your job risks a culture of digital fear
- Editor in chief 18 Sep 2015 -
Buy vs build and the rise of open source are driving digital transformation
- Editor in chief 11 Sep 2015
Former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude once described DVLA as having the worst outsourcing contract in government - and that's quite an accolade, given the number of terrible deals in the ...
Microsoft would be happy with me right now - I just upgraded to Windows 10. It was free, as a consumer, of course, so that helped. But frankly, the only reason I did so was because my seven-year ...
Perhaps Ofcom should review the UK communications market every year - because its current one certainly seems to be causing waves at BT.The regulator put the future of BT's Openreach network ...
"300,000 jobs at high risk of automation"; "Robots have put 1.3 million Londoners' jobs at risk"; "Robots could take 35% of UK jobs in the next 20 years, says new study" - these were just three of ...
One of the defining characteristics of digital transformation for most organisations is the realisation that software development is a core business activity. For much of the 1990s and 2000s, ...