The government could save up to £70bn by 2020 if it shifted away from paper and digitised its activities, learned to work in new ways but with fewer staff, sought out for the best procurement deals, and made use of data and analytics, ...
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German business process outsourcing (BPO) provider Arvato has been selected to operate the first independent shared service centre (ISSC1) on behalf of the government. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. London councils ...
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The Department for Education is cutting IT staff among 1,000 job losses to reduce total headcount by a quarter. The announcement comes as the government aims to shrink Whitehall to its smallest size since the Second World War under the ...
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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 has ditched plans to publish regular'gateway'reports on the progress of major public sector IT projects. The decision,according to reports,follows complaints from senior civil servants,whose compliance Cabinet Office ...
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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 ...