Stephen Kelly, former CEO of technology company Micro Focus, has taken over as chief operating officer (COO) at the Cabinet Office and head of the Efficiency and Reform Group in Ian Watmore's former role. Stephen Kelly is understood to ...
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The government needs to spend less time strategising about ICT, and focus more on implementation and delivery, according to former government CIO Joe Harley. Harley, who was government CIO between February 2011 and spring 2012, told ...
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The government may struggle to deliver its end-user device strategy due to limited resources and a lack of centralised planning, Computer Weekly has learned. The EUD strategy intends to create a more flexible approach to working by ...
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The Cabinet Office claims that a "ruthless approach" to "eradicating wasteful spending" across central government has helped generate £104m in savings in IT spending out of more than £5.5bn in total efficiency savings it claims ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) has created an online tool which lists 1,000 transactional government services. The development is likely to be a key step toward digital public services as the data it provides will help Whitehall ...
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The government will permanently keep a tight rein on spending controls, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said. The announcement acts a rubber stamp for the procedures already in place, said a Cabinet Office spokesman. All ...
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Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service, talked to Computer Weekly about what UK public services could learn from Estonia's open source model and why a dose of its IT leaders' humility wouldn't go amiss in ...
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Digital delivery and a move to mutualised services will be essential for the civil service to weather cuts that will see it shrink to its lowest size since the Second World War,according to Whitehall's Civil Service Reform Plan(CSRP). The ...