programme management
Does your business really need an office?
Comment The move has long been advertised, no doubt in tandem with a change-management programme and a set of messaging guidelines. In this age of mobile working, should businesses consider ditching their offices? [17 Nov 2009]
'Incompetent': Watchdog's verdict on prisoner database
News Chair of the PAC, Edward Leigh, said of the programme that was designed to implement a single database between the Prison Service and the National Probation Service: "Even we were surprised by the extent of the failure... [03 Nov 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Nathaniel Martinez, IDC programme director for European enterprise servers said that last year, more money was spent on powering datacentres than was spent on acquiring new datacentre networking hardware, or new external... [19 Oct 2009]
Naked CIO: Put more business in IT education
Comment I recently sat on a search committee for a practical educational programme that is looking for an IT-specific course to advance IT in the business sector the programme caters to. The... [12 Oct 2009]
ERP delays give CFOs a headache
News Tony Lock, programme director at Freeform Dynamics told silicon.com: "There are certainly delays in ERP projects but that, I think, is not specific to ERP projects, it's rather a symptom of IT projects in general. [25 Sep 2009]
The right skills to boost your pay packet unveiled
News If you're a programme manager in outsourcing and business consulting, all the skills are around genuine business engagement. According to new research, techies working in IT management should consider... [22 Sep 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment It provides a framework for the development of an environmental management system and supporting audit programme. In particular, the UK government's pre-qualification questionnaires now seek information... [10 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News The hard truth is that most of the countries in the developing world are outgrowing the amount of water that is available to them," said Peter Williams, the chief technology officer of IBM's Big Green Innovations... [08 Sep 2009]
Westminster Dashboard for Child Protection Reduces Monitoring Time to Seconds
White Paper Following a successful pilot programme, the council implemented Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 - the corporate performance management solution from Microsoft. Office PerformancePoint... [01 Sep 2009]
Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment Spending on public sector IT has grown to more than £16bn in 2007/08, according to the government's recent Operational Efficiency Programme (OEP) reports. Take for example the £7.2bn Defence Information Infrastructure or... [17 Aug 2009]
Security: Why Adobe could be the new Microsoft
News The company established a Software Development Lifecycle programme, designed to build security into the software, that has become the standard others in the industry follow. Microsoft is a model for patch... [07 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Central government departments are already considering the offshoring of IT under the Operational Efficiency Programme, the Treasury's drive to cut £7.2bn off central government's annual IT and back office costs, while a... [03 Aug 2009]
Consultants Improve Business Compliance With Simplified Document Management System
White Paper With help from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Trinity Expert Systems, Davis Langdon became a participant in the Rapid Deployment Programme for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. It offers a number of services, focusing... [25 Jul 2009]
Too late for CIOs to get lean and agile?
News Organisations that already have an established process improvement programme aimed at waste reduction in IT have a competitive advantage in the current economic situation. But what they don't realise is becoming Agile or... [22 Jul 2009]
Labyrinthine IT systems lose MoD almost £300m
News The MoD's problems are the latest blot on Whitehall's troubled track record when it comes to managing computer systems, ranging from the Department of Health's flawed £12.7bn National Programme for IT to the Cabinet... [21 Jul 2009]
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