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The vultures circle over Universal Credit IT
- Editor in chief 08 Mar 2013 -
Your customers are digital - are you?
- Editor in chief 10 Jan 2013 -
Universal Credit - the last failure of the old IT regime, or a boost for the new?
- Editor in chief 16 Nov 2012
The vultures are circling over the IT behind the government's Universal Credit (UC) programme. Computer Weekly has catalogued the gradual drip-feed of concerns and rumours around the highest ...
In the hopefully unlikely eventuality that your company executives still need convincing that the internet is going to transform your business, the past few days have provided further evidence of ...
There are two things that often signal a major government IT project on the brink of disaster. First, streams of leaks appear suggesting little problems here and rather bigger problems there; and ...
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The government's open standards policy is bold, important and very carefully written
- Editor in chief 01 Nov 2012 -
Gary McKinnon's legacy
- Editor in chief 17 Oct 2012 -
Everybody lost in NHS IT disaster
- Editor in chief 06 Sep 2012 -
When software becomes a utility, everything changes - and it will
- Editor in chief 31 Aug 2012 -
Making the Olympics a showcase for IT
- Editor in chief 03 Aug 2012 -
Why we don't want to write about 'women in IT' anymore
- Editor in chief 13 Jul 2012 -
Is HP too big to fail?
- Editor in chief 24 May 2012
The government has finally released its policy for open standards in IT - after an often controversial consultation process - and it will surprise and delight many observers who expected a meek ...
So Gary McKinnon stays free - for now. At Computer Weekly, we've followed the self-confessed hacker's story for the 10 years it's taken to fight his extradition to the US. Along the way we've seen ...
A degree of ironic congratulation is due to the Department of Health (DoH) and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude for finally extricating the NHS from its disastrous contract with CSC. The ...
It's a challenge faced so far only by the most ultra-successful software companies, but a major turning point comes when a product becomes a utility. It doesn't happen often, but there's a big ...
So far, the London 2012 Olympics has been a triumph all round. An amazing opening ceremony, Team GB gold medals sprinkled generously around, and even the transport system has coped. Ironically, one ...
We've been asked a few times why we put together an award and an event to showcase women in IT. It's quite simple - we don't want to have to discuss the issue of women in IT again. How much better ...
What on earth is going on at HP? After three years riven by changes in CEO (three times) and in strategy (lost count), the company seems to barely know what it is or where it is heading. This month ...
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Your last chance to influence government open standards
- Editor in chief 21 May 2012 -
Government to IT suppliers: Does it hurt yet?
- Editor in chief 29 Mar 2012 -
Loving it when an identity plan comes together
- Editor in chief 02 Mar 2012 -
The man who might be king (well, deputy king)
- Editor in chief 24 Feb 2012 -
G-Cloud is launched, now the dating game begins
- Editor in chief 20 Feb 2012
After the controversy of the early meetings in the government's consultation on open standards, we're now down to the last few weeks of what is a hugely important process. After a slow start, the ...
When I was a schoolboy, there was a popular if rather sado-masochistic playground game called Chinese burns. This involved grasping your opponent's wrist with both hands, and twisting their skin in ...
To quote a phrase that was mightily popular in the 1980s: I love it when a plan comes together. In this case, it's not even my plan, but it's one I've found myself writing about often over the past ...
When Computer Weekly interviewed Cabinet Office permanent secretary Ian Watmore recently, he cited three names as the key people driving change in IT across the public sector. Two were to be ...
In a victory for the government IT reformers, the G-Cloud framework and its associated CloudStore services catalogue are now live. It's an achievement that deserves congratulation - from the public ...