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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]
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... [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... [01 Jun 2007]
Norwich Union moves more IT jobs to India
News Sign up for the FS newsletter today! The insurance giant is also cutting 200 IT contractors who currently work on short-term contracts as part of a total of 4,000 job cuts across the finance, HR and marketing functions of the company. [15 Sep 2006]
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... [03 Jul 2007]
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... [28 Jan 2008]
PC support needs your support
Comment A Labour Party newsletter makes this plea: "Help us get our message across and have the coolest screen in your home or office. But maybe our friends in desktop support should thank us all (and, indeed, Microsoft): if we never had a problem with our... [11 May 2001]
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... [11 Feb 2008]
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... [24 Jul 2007]
Girls' computer club gives tech a facelift
News For example, the girls arranged a visit from Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts - a former pupil - and are designing their own newsletter as a result. Because while girls are quite happy to play on games consoles, surf the web or gossip with friends... [18 May 2006]
B2C lemmings keep plunging into the sea of insolvency
Comment But the man who sent the newsletter to us wasn't quite so impressed. One of their staff, a Ms Sarah Allen, gloried in the job title 'Bag Lady'. (Apparently, the company does have sufficient funds to pay all its creditors, and will wind down "in a... [20 Oct 2000]
Bradford & Bingley gets Oracle HR system
News Sign up for the FS newsletter today! Processes including employee information changes, payroll updates, job description changes and training will be performed through the system, which took 35 days to install and was completed in January. [20 May 2008]
Top ID cards job goes to Accenture's NHS IT man
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! The Home Office has appointed an Accenture managing partner to head up the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and oversee the introduction of the national ID cards programme. [25 Sep 2006]
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... [28 Apr 2008]
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. [26 Jun 2007]
