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Word or Publisher?: Use Crabby's Special Recipe to Decide

whitepaper For those who want to create a newsletter, the same rule holds true: Either program can handle the job. Both Word and Publisher are suitable for even the beginner computer user, and both are pretty flexible when it comes to creating, well, just...

Tags: business management

[02 May 2008]

Use the Right Microsoft Office Program for the Job

whitepaper More than likely, the typical workday is divided between routine tasks (such as reading and responding to e-mail messages, answering phone calls, and scheduling meetings) and more challenging tasks (such as producing a report for the board...

Tags: business management

[02 May 2008]

Top IT job at NHS split into two

News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post - filled by Richard Granger until January this year.silicon.com...

Tags: richard granger, cfh, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

IT at fault: Millions pay wrong tax amount

News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! It said that Paye systems were not "well suited" to somebody having more than one job and that its shortcomings were compounded by inconsistent working practices within the department.

Tags: nao, tax, hmrc

[02 Apr 2008]

Can the government offshore with confidence?

Comment Sign up for the PS newsletter today! He says: "DWP's job is to serve its customers and ensure that the right standards are applied, for example in adherence to stringent data protection and security requirements.

Tags: offshoring, dwp, john suffolk, departments

[14 Feb 2008]

Mobile data keeps Wiltshire Police out on the beat

News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! He said: "The processes have been developed with people who actually do the job to create the most streamlined way of using the applications. Wiltshire Police is to start usability testing of a mobile data...

Tags: hcl, htc, police, gprs

[11 Feb 2008]

Leisure company uses web to streamline suppliers

News Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! He said: "To a [holiday] complex manager, buying is a hassle that takes him away from his day-to-day job. Bourne Leisure has kicked off an e-procurement pilot in a shake up of its supplier base that will cost...

Tags: butlins, hospitality, e-procurement, procurement

[28 Jan 2008]

PDAs to fight war on hospital wear and tear

Case Study Sign up for the PS newsletter today! The system replaces the old method of creating three paper dockets per job and bringing job notes back to the office - saving the Bedford Hospital NHS Trust money and time, while also cutting down on lost...

Tags: nhs, maintenance, pda, hospital

[18 Jan 2008]

NHS trusts to save £5.5m from outsourcing contract

Case Study Sign up for the PS newsletter today! Xerox] frees up potential frontline staff from messing about and trying to fix a printer so they have more time to do the job they're meant to be doing," he added.

Tags: xerox, outsourcing, nhs

[14 Sep 2007]

Escape the data management minefield

Comment Sign up for the PS newsletter today! Again, there was the recent breach on the NHS MTAS recruitment system where personal details of job applicants were available for everyone to see. If public sector organisations fail in their data protection...

[13 Sep 2007]

CIOs 'last three years'

News Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! CIOs stay in their job for just over three years, even though the complex technology projects they are in charge of can take far longer to deliver results. According to research commissioned by EDS, UK tech...

Tags: legacy systems, eds, jobs, cio

[24 Aug 2007]

ID card project gets new boss

News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! The national ID card project has a new boss following a reshuffle of Home Office ministers. Meg Hillier is the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity, with responsibilities that include the...

Tags: biometrics, information commissioner, ogc, home office

[27 Jul 2007]

Why do public sector projects fail?

Comment Sign up for the PS newsletter today! These public sector technology catastrophes also attract a good deal of negative publicity - this can do serious amounts of damage to the organisation's reputation and dent stakeholder and taxpayer confidence...

Tags: supplier, outsourcing, nhs, public sector

[24 Jul 2007]

Co-op to axe 1,000 jobs in £100m efficiency drive

News Sign up for the FS newsletter today! CFS said the job losses are "regrettably unavoidable". Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) is to cut 1,000 jobs this year as part of plans to reduce operating costs by £100m by the end of June 2008 but will...

Tags: co-op, co-operative financial services

[20 Jul 2007]

Maritime watchdog monitors critical apps

News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! NimBUS gives us a heads-up as a preventative method and proactive monitoring of the hardware and applications the MCA depends on to do its job. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has deployed an...

Tags: remote, applications, monitoring, management

[03 Jul 2007]

Cadbury takes wraps off £650m efficiency drive

News Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! Confectionary and soft drinks giant Cadbury Schweppes is to cut the size of its IT department by up to a third as part of a new £650m four-year plan to slash group operating costs and increase profit margins.

Tags: cadbury schweppes

[26 Jun 2007]

It's good to talk, says supermarket chain

Case Study Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! Heyes notes around 2,200 Somerfield staff use conference calling as part of their job. Somerfield has reaped the benefits of improved communication flow by upping its use of conference calls, including...

Tags: retail

[13 Jun 2007]

Learn to love the web, councils chiefs told

News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! This change has contributed to a £1m per year cost saving, with 85 per cent of job applications now submitted online. Local authorities chiefs must become more committed to online services if they are to fully...

Tags: council, socitm, online, online services

[01 Jun 2007]

Fighting against the data deluge

News Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! One of the benefits is the number of job applicants that we have for every job - about 200. Speaking at BI vendor SAS' recent customer conference, Accenture's director of research Jeanne Harris said analysing...

Tags: business intelligence, retail

[24 May 2007]

Gov recruitment site gets record searches

News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is hailing the success of its recruitment website www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk after it received a record 6.5 million job searches in one week.

Tags: job

[10 May 2007]

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