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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]
MoD to save £35m with online travel service
News The online service significantly simplifies the process of booking travel and accommodation for services personnel, cutting out paperwork and allowing them to compare budget airlines with scheduled carriers or rail for... [19 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 entire... [11 Jun 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]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study In terms of budget, Suffolk County is about £1bn per year and Mid Suffolk is around £10m per year. Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have merged IT departments in a wider initiative... [05 Feb 2008]
Recession fears squeeze tech budgets
News Any resulting belt-tightening by organisations will usually hit the IT budget first and half of IT chiefs on silicon.com's 12-strong weekly CIO Jury panel said they are already planning... [24 Jan 2008]
Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment Real-time management techniques were introduced to ensure the project was brought in under budget and before the deadline. The financial sector is 10 years behind the times in its approach to management... [02 Jan 2008]
Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008
News The downward pressure on operational IT costs will continue in 2008 but those savings could free up budget for increased levels of capital expenditure. Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director... [17 Dec 2007]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment The percentage of costs that are going to be spent on providing power to IT equipment and taking heat away will rise to 70 per cent of budget by 2020. That is a trend that's been common in [the]... [05 Dec 2007]
One in three tech projects runs over budget
News A third of IT projects carried out in the private sector run over budget, according to a survey. It said this isn't helped by the lack of visibility and... [12 Sep 2007]
£31m pumped into ID card project
News The £30.9m NIS-incurred expenditure was short of the initial budget of £55m, according to the Home Office Identity and Passport Service (IPS) Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2007. [30 Jul 2007]
Denise Plumpton
CIO Profile She has a direct budget of £25m and a team of 150 staff. Plumpton's experience is mainly in the private sector where she worked at mobile phone maker Sendo, TNT, Rover Group and Powergen... [06 Jun 2007]
Failed: Seven out of 10 gov IT projects
News Harley said the criteria for judging the success of a project included whether it was delivered on time, on budget and to the quality promised. While private sector... [18 May 2007]
Gov blasted over budget-bloating IT projects
News According to the Liberals, Defra is the department with the least control over its budgets, with IT projects 46.3 per cent over budget - an overspend of £62.4m. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has gone the... [14 May 2007]
Boots aiming to shave £30m off annual IT costs
News Boots' current total annual IT budget is around £130m - split between £100m of 'keeping the lights on' run costs and £30m new investment. Our annual IT budget is going... [25 Apr 2007]
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