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RSS public sectorPublic sector rewarded for wireless innovation
News The public sector has demonstrated it can lead the way in the use of wireless local area network (WLAN) technology, scooping several awards for its efforts last night. Closer to home, the Bristol Hotzone project walked away with Best Enterprise... [21 Apr 2005]
Public sector left behind as banks hoover up contractors
News If you're a contractor, you're now more likely to be working in financial services than the public sector, new research has found. The public sector, historically the biggest employer of temporary IT staff, has now ceded top spot to the financial... [24 Jan 2005]
Public sector must share data
News The Audit Commission has published a report, Governing Partnerships: Bridging the Accountability Gap, which says the benefits of public sector partnerships are "undermined by blurred lines of accountability leading to poor value for money". [26 Oct 2005]
Brampton Factor: Public sector woes
Comment The obvious one is productivity, which evidence suggests is falling in the public sector. Across the whole of government, a leaked report from the Treasury and the Downing Street Strategy Unit (first published by the Sunday Times in 2004) suggested... [20 Jun 2007]
CurrentCOMPETE: Public Sector Solutions for Government Organizations
White Paper Current Analysis differentiates itself from other market research firms in the public sector by providing analysis and assessments of solutions that impact mission critical areas. Current Analysis analysts objectively compare and contrast products... [30 Aug 2005]
Public sector secures £1m per year software discount
News The OGC announced on Thursday the government will see the savings as a direct result of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that allows government to pool buying power across the public sector. As specified in the terms of the MoU, the government... [15 Sep 2006]
Public sector at vanguard of mobile computing
News The public sector is leading the way in the deployment and management of mobile computing technologies. Interviews with 600 UK organisations across several vertical industries and government, commissioned by O2, have shown 70 per cent of public... [10 Jun 2004]
Public sector must wake up to CRM
News The public sector is waking up to the fact it must get smarter about customer relationship management (CRM) as it attempts to deliver on promises of joined-up and transformational government. Public sector organisations, in line with the move... [24 Mar 2006]
Public sector struggles to come to terms with B2B
News On the day it launched a major project with Royal & SunAlliance (RSA) designed to save the insurance firm £20m per year, Ariba admitted that online marketplaces are running into problems in the public sector. [10 Aug 2000]
Public sector hoovers up contractors
News For the first time, the public sector has overtaken finance as the UK's biggest employer of contractors. The figures for the two sectors are close - 20.5 per cent of contractors are now working in the public sector as opposed to 19.9 per cent... [07 Jun 2004]
Public sector IT spend to slow
News The UK public sector software and IT services market will begin to wilt as big government IT programmes slow down, analyst house Ovum predicts. The public sector market is predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.9 per cent between... [10 Sep 2007]
Public sector plays catch-up on CRM
News But public sector CRM is developing in quite a different way to its private sector counterpart. When you say 'value' in the public sector, it's very hard to define. Nick Hewson, MD of analyst firm Hewson, said some improvements have already been... [29 Sep 2005]
Public sector going mad for outsourced IT spend
News New research shows that public-sector buying of outsourcing is concentrated more on IT outsourcing than business processes. The latest research from Kable has highlighted a massive increase in public sector outsourcing, with IT contracts driving... [29 Jun 2004]
Public Sector Fraud: When You Can't Choose Who to Do Business With
White Paper This webcast examines the issue of fraud in the Public Sector. But the Public Sector does not have this luxury - it has to do business with the whole of the population, including those people who are known to represent a serious risk. [11 Aug 2006]
Public sector IT chiefs back shared services push
News Public sector IT chiefs are backing the government's move to shared services but warn that it won't necessarily happen as fast as some in Whitehall would like. The move towards shared services across public sector organisations, such as local and... [08 May 2006]
