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It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The government has committed £80m to ramp up police smartphone use by funding the deployment of 30,000 mobile data devices by 2010 - with the Home Office's plan being to increase police visibility in communities by easing the... [20 Oct 2009]
Less Bureaucracy and Better Target Follow-Up Using SAS
White Paper In the future at Arhus Kommune - the Municipality of the city of Arhus, Denmark - managers at all levels of elderly care centers will be able to create an overview of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and fulfill management objectives... [19 Sep 2009]
Can Yahoo! facelift help it ditch the 'peanut butter'?
News s famous bureaucracy. Has Yahoo! finally got to the point where it's exchanging peanut butter for WD-40? Three years ago, Yahoo! executive Brad Garlinghouse wrote the famous "Peanut Butter Manifesto", designed as a... [25 Aug 2009]
BBC is taking tech seriously, so give it a break!
Comment Just think, if the BBC had waited until it had developed iPlayer for all of these platforms, the launch would have been delayed for quite some time - which would inevitably have led to more criticism, probably along the lines of it being... [31 Jul 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment As if acknowledging India's tortuous bureaucracy and its corrupt political system known to blockade change, Nilekani added, "Technology is only one piece of the puzzle". India's successful tech executives are beginning... [27 Jul 2009]
Conservatives: 'Ofcom as we know it will cease to exist'
News Cameron specified Ofcom's current role in determining the future of regional news and Channel 4, and said these responsibilities "should not be determined by an unaccountable bureaucracy but by ministers accountable to... [07 Jul 2009]
Police mobiles cautioned for bad behaviour
News According to Jan Berry, the Home Office-appointed independent advocate for reducing police bureaucracy, handheld deployments are failing to live up to expectations. Berry, whose advice will be used to help form... [12 Jun 2009]
Epsom and Ewell Boosts Call Center Efficiency and Cuts Costs With Service Innovation
White Paper The council has leveraged its investment in Siebel applications to reinforce its commitment to delivering the best value to its residents by reducing bureaucracy and improving economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. [12 Jun 2009]
Obama: 'We are underprepared for cyber attack'
News Business groups had sought to raise cyber security's profile in the administration but remained wary about regulatory mandates from Washington; security hawks would prefer the new bureaucracy to have more authority over... [01 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment Bureaucracy rules - no doubt about it. Compiled on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via 3G during the same journey As a young man I worked in a number of 'mom and pop' stores and small businesses... [28 May 2009]
Girl Guides get e-Bulked up
News Denise King, chief executive of Girlguiding UK, said in a statement that the "e-application channel will help us reduce bureaucracy, improve quality and speed up the [recruitment] process". Girlguiding UK has become the... [20 Apr 2009]
Police failing to grasp new tech
News The 43 forces that cover England and Wales have been too slow in upgrading incompatible computer systems to share information between forces and are not making full use of features on Airwave radios and smartphones that could cut... [16 Feb 2009]
Tories slam gov't for lack of open source love
News Too much taxpayers' money is being wasted as a result of flawed procurement, risk-adverse bureaucracy and a lack of incentives for cutting costs. The Conservative party has criticised the UK government over its lack of... [28 Jan 2009]
Naked CIO: How to make projects succeed
Comment The public sector has too much process and bureaucracy to be effective in its pursuit. If the public sector could learn to streamline processes and to rid itself of bureaucracy and instead drive process... [19 Jan 2009]
Inbox: Who's to blame for snail's pace broadband?
Comment Let's hope that if they do invest now that when the benefits start to come in they reinvest and reinvest and never think to steal it back to waste on public sector bureaucracy. The weekly Inbox column collects the best... [12 Jan 2009]
