Whitehall must measure the progress of its IT strategy more effectively, particularly the use of agile methodologies,if it is to achieve its technology transformation agenda, the Institute for Government has warned. In its report, System ...
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GLENN Archer has been appointed chief information officer for the Australian government, replacing Ann Steward who announced her retirement last month. The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) also announced that ...
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The government’s CloudStore model could be emulated across other government services as a means of improving the number of SMEs doing business with the public sector, the government’s procurement chief has said. Speaking at ...
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The government's CIO,Andy Nelson(pictured),has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project,which include a structure more like Apple's App Store,and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT, Peter Dawes-Huish, slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week, likening the current service level to a military mission "with an entry route and no exit route" that is "not ...
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Former deputy chief information officer(CIO)Liam Maxwell has been appointed as the government's first ever chief technology officer(CTO)in a Whitehall IT shake-up. Maxwell will now report to Mike Bracken,executive director of the ...
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The CEO of Linux-based software solutions company LinuxIT,Peter Dawes-Huish,slammed the public sector G-Cloud system this week,likening the current service level to a military mission"with an entry route and no exit route"that is"not just ...
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Government IT reformers have criticised the Cabinet Office's plans to give chief procurement officer Bill Crothers a more prominent position within the IT leadership team. Sources told Computer Weekly they were concerned the move could ...
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The government's IT leadership team is to undergo a major organisational reshuffle,according to a notice from Cabinet Office chief operating officer Stephen Kelly seen by Computer Weekly. Under the shake-up Andy Nelson will remain ...
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The one per cent of GDP spent on IT needs to be reduced, according to deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell, during a keynote speech at the Business Cloud Summit in central London today. "One per cent of GDP is spent on IT, and that's much ...
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Government IT is no longer in a "19th century" state, but there's still much work to be done especially when it comes to G-Cloud. That's the view of the programme's director and director of Home Office IT, Denise McDonagh, who was ...
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HM Revenue & Customs' Phil Pavitt will step down from his role as CIO in January to take up a new role at insurance group Aviva. Deputy CIO Mark Hall has taken on the CIO role at HMRC, but Pavitt will remain with the department until ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
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Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei has reacted to today's report from a US Congressional Committee that both it, and rival Chinese firm ZTE, represent a "security threat". Further reading US Congress: Huawei and ...
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