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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
May 2007
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Gateway reviews on IT and other projects - FT says "culture of secrecy alive and well in Whitehall"
31 May 2007 -
Why is CSC objecting to the take-over of iSoft by IBA - and do NHS trusts care?
30 May 2007 -
Subordinates have many reasons not to tell bosses the truth
30 May 2007
The Financial Times says that the Office of Government Commerce is on "shaky ground" in appealing to the High Court to try and stop early gateway reviews on ID cards being published. Links: ...
Phil Codling, an analyst at Ovum comments, has some well-informed comments on the blocking by services supplier CSC of a proposed take-over of iSoft by Australian company IBA. Codling says: "CSC is ...
There's a good article in The Times online that, in part, compares the organisational structure of Tesco with the many layers of management in the public sector. The article suggests that the ...
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Office of Government Commerce statement on gateway reviews - 30 May 2007
30 May 2007 -
Please don't force us to publish gateway reviews - appeal to the High Court
29 May 2007 -
Former head of police IT on ID cards, police databases, and surveillance
29 May 2007 -
The government prepares to write off Parliamentary report on the NHS's IT programme
23 May 2007 -
Joe Harley, CIO at DWP - suppliers will give us some home truths in July
23 May 2007 -
Useful or useless Board minutes - HM Revenue and Customs
22 May 2007 -
Government IT failures are rarely the fault of the technology professionals
22 May 2007
The Office of Government Commerce, which runs gateway reviews of risky IT-related projects and programmes, has issued a statement on its decision to appeal to the High Court in an effort to keep ...
Comment Senior civil servants and lawyers spent several hours in a secret meeting yesterday (29 May 2007) to decide whether to go to the High Court to try and stop the results of early "gateway ...
Phillip Webb, a former head of the Police Information Technology Organisation - now subsumed into the National Policing Improvement Agency - says there needs to be more public debate over the ...
Comment All the signs are that the government is preparing to reject a report of the all-party Public Accounts Committee into the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT]. There is a view in ...
An anonymous comment has been posted to a blog suggesting that we made up the comments of Joe Harley, CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions. Joe Harley gave a speech to the "Turning the Tide ...
In the interests of encouraging openness, this blog will occasionally highlight candid or uninformative board minutes. Now we're highlighting the board minutes for January 2007 of HM Revenue and ...
The reporting of IT projects and particularly failures in the public sector can be misleading, by implying wrongly that it's the computer specialists to blame. Failures rarely in fact have anything ...
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How government spin doctors reacted to a CIO's comments that only 30% of IT projects succeed
22 May 2007 -
Public sector IT projects have only 30% success rate - CIO for Department for Work and Pensions
17 May 2007 -
Heroic and Epic - Minister Stephen Timms in praise of NHS £12.4bn National IT plan
17 May 2007 -
Academics find NHS IT programme is "hampered by financial deficits, poor communication and delays"
17 May 2007 -
ID cards scheme - a slight gust of openness
17 May 2007
Analysis Reporters from The Times and The Guardian have followed up an article on Computer Weekly.com, and on this blog, about a speech by Joe Harley, who is Chief Information Officer and Group ...
Joe Harley, the Chief Information Officer at the Department for Work and Pensions, says that "only 30%" of technology-based projects and programmes are a success - at a time when taxes are funding ...
Stephen Timms, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has given his unqualified support for the NHS's National Programme for IT [NPfIT] - and praised the scheme's achievements using the words "heroic" ...
An academic study of staff views of the progress of the National Programme for IT [NPfIT] locally has found that financial deficits and poor communication have hampered its implementation. And the ...
The Identity and Passport Service, the Home Office agency responsible for implementing the ID Cards scheme, has told potential suppliers that it "does not wish to receive any confidential or ...