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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up In fact - as an aside - even Whitehall is putting IT on a diet, with the government's green IT champion, Chris Chant telling silicon.com the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves on a... [20 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment Chui: Some of the things that were identified [in our research] are increasing uncertainty, lower availability on credit, potentially lower consumer spending in certain areas and more public sector... [18 Nov 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment And even the public sector punches above its weight, thanks largely to the self-promoting antics of politicians - those one-man 'enterprises' called MPs. Tis a thankless task to be forever fielding... [16 Nov 2009]
Integrated Governance, Risk, and Compliance: Improve Performance and Enhance Productivity in Federal Agencies
White Paper Off late high-profile accounting and management scandals in the commercial sector have given rise to legislative action to improve internal controls over financial reporting for companies participating in the financial... [13 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News As a result, the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves on a diet" when it comes to carbon, according to the government's green IT champion, Chris Chant. To help with the diet, 110... [13 Nov 2009]
'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
News Local council IT departments' tendency to outsource problematic tech functions means their outsourcing projects are rarely successful, according to a new report. The report, from consultants Deloitte, reveals that local councils need to... [10 Nov 2009]
Field-Tested Data Mining
White Paper In the past few years, many businesses and some public sector agencies have invested heavily in some combination of ERP, supply chain management, sales force automation, data warehouse, query and... [03 Nov 2009]
The Move Toward Shared Services: An Examination of the Business Models and IT Trends Driving Public Sector Adoption of Shared Services
White Paper They bridge legacy and newly developed applications across diverse organizations to provide the public sector with more efficient means of serving civilians, employees, business partners, or any other... [30 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be,... [28 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be,... [23 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News With the state of the finances in the public sector however I do not think there will be a big take-up at all. As the budgets free up this I think that Windows 7 will be a success in the private... [21 Oct 2009]
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News Such dematerialisation - services that reduce the need for physical hardware such as storage media - should be promoted by governments and public sector bodies, according to the EC. In a recommendation... [13 Oct 2009]
Laying the foundations for evolving eGovernment: Why next generation Ethernet technology holds the key
White Paper The UK Government has committed to transform the public sector by making truly e-enabled delivery of public services a reality.This whitepaper demonstrates with real-life examples of... [07 Oct 2009]
Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News The news comes against a background of high-profile infections, with a number of public sector bodies being hit by the Conficker worm. Conficker has in the past infected several public... [05 Oct 2009]
'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
News Consequently the tech market is feeling the pinch: IT purchases by business and the public sector in Western and Central European countries are forecast to shrink 6.3 per cent year-on-year in 2009,... [02 Oct 2009]
