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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
September 2009
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Six types of IT project failure
30 Sep 2009 -
Don't scrap the NPfIT?
30 Sep 2009 -
BT Health PR chief exits
30 Sep 2009
Six types of IT project failure - Techrepublic, Michael Krigsman - Intent Failure - When the project doesn't bring enough added value or capability to beat down the obstacles inherent throughout ...
Martyn Thomas, who's visiting professor of software engineering at Oxford University Computing Laboratory, takes issue with my comment that too much has been spent on the NPfIT to scrap it. He ...
From PR Week today: "BT Health [PR] chief Nicola Rossi exits to join the National Pharmacy Association "Nicola Rossi is to join the National Pharmacy Association as director of communications later ...
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SRO changes threaten project success - and the NPfIT has had 6
28 Sep 2009 -
Government 2010 - how Web 2.0 is changing the State
28 Sep 2009 -
Can Brown or Cameron really make big IT cuts?
- Nemertes Research 23 Sep 2009 -
Whitehall and the irritant FOI Act
23 Sep 2009 -
Ministers sit on draft NPfIT report - until after 2010 election?
22 Sep 2009 -
MPs want more innovation - and transparency over IT-based projects
10 Sep 2009 -
Coyness over 'open tender' KPMG health contract - a systemic problem surfaces?
10 Sep 2009
A useful short report on the lessons learned from Gateway reviews of high and medium-risk projects and programmes was published last week by the Office of Government Commerce. It's one in a series ...
Government 2010 will be streamed online (free of charge) on 22 October. It'll focus on how Web 2.0 technologies - such as social media, cloud computing and open source technologies - are changing ...
The leaders of the three main parties, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, are promising - threatening - public spending cuts. IT has been singled out by the Tories and Liberal Democrats. ...
The Department of Health has been unable to provide convincing evidence that a contract awarded to KPMG went to an open competitive tender. When I asked the department's press office about the KPMG ...
This is a fuller version of an article on Computer.Weekly.com's homepage. Ministers and officials have decided not to publish this year a draft annual statement to Parliament on the costs and ...
"Projects which have been subject to [Gateway] reviews have still experienced problems, and there is evidence that they are not always taken seriously. This is reinforced by a lack of ...
The Department of Health has increased the number of its press officers from 26 in 2006/7 to 31 in 2008/9, according to a reply given to FOI campaigner Heather Brooke. Some FOI details on the tens ...
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KPMG health contract - is this the DH "open tender"?
10 Sep 2009 -
PACS - jewel of the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme?
09 Sep 2009 -
Top CIO salaries in government beat the private sector
08 Sep 2009 -
EDS v Sky - what's happening?
08 Sep 2009 -
iSoft annual report - notes on the financial statement
01 Sep 2009
I posted a separate article "Department of Health coyness over KPMG "open tender" contract. This is the document the Department emailed to me after a month of my asking questions about whether the ...
When Roger Conway, a company secretary, broke his arm at Bristol Airport, he came to understand that PACS x-ray systems cannot always talk to each other. Ministers, loyal Labour MPs and Whitehall ...
[This is a fuller version of an article on ComputerWeekly.com.]Top CIO salaries in the UK public sector are among the best in the world .Typical CIO salaries in the UK and US are between £100,000 ...
A judgement in the longest running - and most costly - IT dispute was expected before Christmas last year. But still there's no sign of it. Now Clive Seddon and David Barker, partners at law firm ...
In keeping with Australian Accounting Standards, iSoft's annual accounts, which are published today [1 September 2009], include "certain critical accounting estimates". These estimates take into ...