Gershon
RSS GershonWas £26bn IT savings claim sexed up?
News Claims that £26.5bn has been slashed from public spending under the Gershon programme to cut Whitehall costs have been called into doubt by a parliamentary report. The Gershon Review into government... [29 Jul 2009]
Leading a horse to water
Comment Not all of them are fans, so he is going to need all his charm to push through the initiatives conceived in the Gershon and Varney reports. Suffolk has about another year to his tenure as government CIO and it would be... [23 Jun 2008]
A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow
Comment So there's little wonder that following public relations disasters like these and the drives for cost savings and efficiency as outlined by Gershon and Varney, shared services are proving to be quite palatable. [20 Jun 2007]
Shared services 'about more than cost savings'
News The Gershon Report of July 2004 calculated that the government could save as much as £20bn annually if departments found ways of sharing back-office functions such as finance, HR and IT - and the concept of shared... [30 Apr 2007]
Spending bonanza to come in public sector IT
News Cost savings targets were set by the government following the Gershon Review of efficiency in the public sector in 2004. The shift to shared services in the public sector will drive an increase in tech spending, one... [12 Jan 2007]
Treasury IT projects '17 years late'
News All that hype about Gershon and efficiency rings hollow when the real facts come out about dismal IT failures like this. Computer projects at the Treasury are running 17 years late, according to figures obtained by the... [13 Oct 2006]
DWP CIO Joe Harley
Comment Harley's big challenge is to help the DWP deliver the modernisation behind the government's welfare reform agenda as well as hitting efficiency targets as part of the Gershon Review, which means cutting the department's... [27 Jul 2006]
£4.7bn Whitehall efficiency savings questioned
News The government's efficiency and cost-cutting programme that came out of the Gershon Review set a target of achieving £21.5bn of savings per year across the public sector by the end of the financial year 2007/08. [20 Jul 2006]
The Role of ICT in Meeting Local Government Efficiency Targets: A Survey of 80 English Local Authorities
White Paper Asset management, web self-service and other applications are clearly in the minds of many of those charged with achieving Gershon savings, and there is evidence of an increased commitment to invest in these areas. [26 May 2006]
Criminal Justice IT on track for £3bn efficiency savings
News In an interview with silicon.com, CJIT director-general John Suffolk said the programme is now on track to deliver savings that will contribute to Gershon efficiency targets in the form of cashable savings, cost... [06 Mar 2006]
Can IT save public sector billions?
News Sir Peter Gershon was commissioned in August 2003 to conduct a review of efficiency in the public sector. The NAO suggested that the government was failing to fully follow Gershon's advice. It pointed... [20 Feb 2006]
Public sector to shop in online marketplace
News The move to an online market is part of the government's public sector economy drive - following on from Sir Peter Gershon's review of public service spending - that looks to improve efficiency and share services. [15 Feb 2006]
DWP to offshore IT jobs?
News The government is under pressure to cut costs following a report from ex-CEO of the Office of Government Commerce, Sir Peter Gershon, who said the public sector must save £20bn through improved efficiency by 2008. [23 Jan 2006]
CIO Jury: Cash-strapped year ahead for IT
News Chris Robinson, CIO at Staffordshire County Council, said: "With the Gershon efficiency agenda we will have a cut of five per cent. IT bosses face another year of belt-tightening with many predicting budgets will remain... [16 Dec 2005]
IT helps slash £4.7bn off public spending
News Brown claims the savings exceed this year's efficiency targets set by the Gershon Review, which has tasked the public sector with slashing £21bn off annual spending by 2008. IT has helped deliver £4.7bn of efficiency... [06 Dec 2005]
