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Public sector CIOs: It's your time to shine
Comment The DWP recently completed a transformation programme to standardise services across its IT infrastructure that has been successful in delivering both cost-savings and improvements in services. An upcoming government... [08 Jun 2009]
Joe Harley
CIO Profile Harley has been CIO at the DWP for almost five years, starting in July 2004. He's also on the executive team that steers the DWP's business strategy. Among Harley's achievements at the... [03 Jun 2009]
ID cards to remain unreadable until next year
News We are in discussions with DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] about remote authentication for processing unemployment benefits and the like. But we wouldn't buy [readers] for them - the DWP would... [07 Apr 2009]
"We don't need custom services, we don't need anything fancy"
Comment But the DWP is not without its share of tardy IT projects - a parliamentary question earlier this year revealed nine major IT projects are collectively more than 15 years late. The DWP deals with 20... [06 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Home Office hacking powers go too far
Comment The nine DWP projects that are 15 years behind schedule Nine major IT projects underway at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are collectively more than 15 years late. Readers also got heated... [23 Jan 2009]
The nine DWP projects that are 15 years behind schedule
News Nine major IT projects underway at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are collectively more than 15 years late. According to the DWP, the IT project with the longest hold-up is the Central... [21 Jan 2009]
IT helps sloppy contract handling cost UK £160m
News The report, however, goes on to praise the £870m telecoms deal between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and BT as an example of where senior government managers worked well with the supplier. [18 Dec 2008]
Web traders targeted in £2bn tax dodge crackdown
News According to the PAC, the hidden economy could be costing Britain up to £2bn a year, with only two cases of tax evasion prosecuted for every 1,000 discovered in the case of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). [09 Dec 2008]
The 11 IT projects costing DWP £1.6bn
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is investing more than £1.6bn in various tech projects up to 2011. The DWP has revealed which IT projects are being worked on along with how much each one is... [24 Nov 2008]
Xerox Uses Software as a Service to Meet Contractual Obligations and Optimize Client Value
White Paper The challenge was to gain the scalability to transact increasing volumes of sales orders, purchase orders, and supplier invoices throughout the life of the contract and add new services as required by DWP and avoid... [11 Oct 2008]
HP-EDS job cuts: "It's business as normal"
News According to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents more than 2,000 EDS staff in the UK, the services provider has contracts with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Department for Work and Pensions... [09 Oct 2008]
£3bn gov't IT contracts up for grabs
News Tech contracts worth a total of £3bn are up for grabs at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as part of plans for servicing and upgrading the organisation's entire infrastructure. Five IT contracts will be awarded... [01 Jul 2008]
Outsourcing - life after the contract
Comment With the recent news that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has axed its £59m IT contract with Siemens - a contract that meant Siemens would have overseen the £110bn in payments made to 17 million people each... [12 Mar 2008]
Computer says 'No' - lie detectors trap benefit cheats
News Only five per cent of people refused to use the VRA system when told of the pilot being run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). A DWP spokesman said: "This technology will actually support... [18 Feb 2008]
Can the government offshore with confidence?
Comment For example, as far as Joe Harley, CIO of the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP), is concerned, it is up to suppliers to decide how to deliver services and value to the client. He says: "DWP's job is... [14 Feb 2008]
