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The question that matters on Universal Credit: Do you believe Iain Duncan Smith?
- Editor in chief 06 Feb 2014 -
It isn't easy being agile, as Universal Credit and BBC DMI have learned
- Editor in chief 31 Jan 2014 -
IBM, Microsoft results demonstrate the pace of change in IT
- Editor in chief 24 Jan 2014
Do you believe Iain Duncan Smith?This is becoming a key question in the progress of the troubled Universal Credit welfare reform programme. The secretary of state for work and pensions has staked ...
It is becoming a truism that if you want to be a digital business, you need to adopt agile software development. It's certainly true that most pure-play e-commerce companies are built around agile ...
The latest financial results this week from arguably the two most influential enterprise IT suppliers of the past 30 years demonstrate again how quickly the technology landscape is changing. First, ...
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When will government IT teams learn they are not as different as they think
- Editor in chief 14 Jan 2014 -
Government digital drive hit by government immigration policies
- Editor in chief 09 Jan 2014 -
Universal Credit IT: What we know; what we don't know
- Editor in chief 12 Dec 2013 -
RBS could change the face of UK banking if it took a radical approach to its IT overhaul
- Editor in chief 05 Dec 2013 -
A new focus on training is needed to tackle transition to a digital economy
- Editor in chief 29 Nov 2013 -
The new vocabulary of IT leadership
- Editor in chief 21 Nov 2013 -
Those deleted Tory speeches - how technology holds politics to account
- Editor in chief 15 Nov 2013
We learned today of another government IT fiasco - millions of pounds being wasted at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on a system for recruiting soldiers and reservists for the Army. The project was ...
As any IT manager who has tried to recruit software developers with digital skills and agile experience will know, there are not enough suitably skilled people on the market. For those that are ...
"There is no debacle on Universal Credit" declared Iain Duncan Smith in his opening salvo to MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee this week.The beleaguered secretary of state yet again ...
While Royal Bank of Scotland's IT is under intense scrutiny after its latest failure this week, don't underestimate the fact that every retail banking CIO in the UK is thinking, "There but for the ...
There is an emerging sense of fear around the effect that the digital revolution is going to have on jobs.Recently there has been a swathe of articles and surveys warning of an impending jobs ...
Surrounded by rapid changes in the technology environment - what with cloud, mobile, big data and all the other topical industry buzzwords - the vocabulary of IT leaders has shifted noticeably in ...
It was only two weeks ago that I wrote a post on this blog titled "The risky politics of open government", highlighting the expectations placed upon any prime minister who declares his ...
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What is the public interest in Universal Credit IT?
- Editor in chief 08 Nov 2013 -
Universal Credit - now the role of IT suppliers must come under scrutiny
- Editor in chief 06 Nov 2013 -
The risky politics of open government
- Editor in chief 31 Oct 2013 -
Is virtualisation the next big market to be ripe for disruption?
- Editor in chief 24 Oct 2013 -
Something is broken in UK IT skills and recruitment
- Editor in chief 18 Oct 2013
Here's a question for you to ponder: What is the public interest in Universal Credit, the government's flagship welfare reform programme?My guess is that the public would be very interested to know ...
It is increasingly likely the government will have to write-off most, if not all, of the £303m spent so far on developing IT to support Universal Credit. Multiple sources told Computer Weekly that ...
"Open" is the newly favoured word at the heart of government, and one that intrinsically connects politics and technology. Prime minister David Cameron once promised us "the most open and ...
People often ask, what makes Computer Weekly different among the ever-growing variety of technology news websites?One of the main things is our focus on the often-boring topics that are central to ...
The oldest, longest running story in Computer Weekly is the IT skills shortage. No matter what the time period, the latest technologies, or the state of the economy, the UK IT sector has never yet ...