budget and public sector
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Across the various IT teams and whopping £1bn annual tech budget at TfL there are about 500 direct employees (nearer 1,400 when you add in the outsourced pieces), supporting 14,000 desktop PCs, 14,000... [29 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT systems with a single infrastructure is running more than a year late and is £182m over budget. The completion date for the first part of... [04 Jul 2008]
Cisco Systems Capital Public Sector Leasing Program
White Paper The Cisco Systems Capital Public Sector Leasing Programs help organizations acquire network solutions today, using currently available funds and future budget... [03 Jul 2008]
Scalable, Mission-Critical Optical Networks for the Public Sector
White Paper City, county and state governments must support a growing need for services, while keeping within strict budget constraints. More than ever, public sector organizations... [03 Jul 2008]
MoD plans telepresence trial
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is considering a telepresence pilot, as part of its plans to tackle its travel budget.silicon.com Public Sector According to group captain Andy Towler, team... [03 Jul 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News The Treasury has brought Read on board as part of a review of public sector spending that will produce an interim report for this Autumn's pre-Budget report. A number of recent large IT... [23 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's... [11 Jun 2008]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile Outsourcing is a mainstay of the Met's IT strategy, with a budget of £300m per year. She learned her craft at GE, specialising in the oil industry, but went over to consultancy at PA where she spent 11 years, focusing... [11 Jun 2008]
Taxpayer "lost" £90m on QinetiQ sell-off
News The Treasury was also criticised for giving the MoD an incentive to rush through the sale by promising to credit the department's budget with £250m if it was completed by March 2003. Senior managers at QinetiQ,... [10 Jun 2008]
IT swallows a quarter of NHS cash budget
News The cost of upgrading NHS IT systems is now gobbling up a quarter of the health service's budget for major projects. The spending spike coincides with the launch, in 2002, of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT)... [09 Jun 2008]
£81m cost of botched gov't shared services
News As a result the programme is set to go £65m over budget and projected savings have been slashed by nearly two-thirds. The figures were revealed in a scathing report by public... [23 May 2008]
Beijing MTR Enhances Budget Control, Streamlines Accounting Processes
White Paper The solution enabled the organization to streamline workflows, improve budget control, speed financial reporting, and enhance asset management. In February 2005, three private sector... [21 May 2008]
Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall
News The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public sector contract windfall the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised to SMEs in his 2008 Budget. Alastair Darling's... [12 Mar 2008]
Outsourcing - life after the contract
Comment Blowing the budget, delays and terminations are rife. Controlled communications between the public sector organisation and the outsourcing partner are... [12 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: ID cards - cock-up and conspiracy...
Comment Perhaps the most unlikely element so far is the idea of the government finishing such a major project without it running a fair few billion over budget and a couple of years late - or just getting scrapped. [20 Feb 2008]
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