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How many organisations are failing to deliver on their Agile developments?
By David Bicknell How many organisations are struggling to see real value and business benefits from their Agile IT projects? This blog, looking back at some of the predictions for Agile in 2012,...
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Cerner project over budget by 100 times amount of local heart monitor donations
By Tony Collins When the Lord Mayor of Bristol presented a cheque for £20,000 to buy 10 cardiac monitors for local hospitals he could not have known that NHS officials were quietly spending more than...
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Are SIAMs the new SIs?
In this guest blog, John Jones and John Pendlebury-Green, co-founders of strategic sales architects Landseer Partners, take a look at the development of a new generation of outsourcing in ICT and the...
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Fire ‘superstations’ without software cost £1m a month – The Times
By Tony Collins The Times reports today that taxpayers are paying more than £1m a month on the rent and upkeep of fire control rooms across England that have never been used. The purpose-built control...
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Whitehall to relent on secrecy over mega projects – after 10-year campaign?
By Tony Collins The Cabinet Office may be about to change its decade-old policy of not publishing reports on the progress or otherwise of its large, costly and risky IT-based projects. A change of...
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HMRC loses an important voice on its board
By Tony Collins Steve Lamey, who is leaving HM Revenue and Customs as Director General, Benefits and Credits, has worked tirelessly to improve the organisation’s systems and administration; and he has...
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Civil service reform plan – real change or a tweak?
By Tony Collins The civil service reform plan is to be published this afternoon, at 3.30pm. The Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and Sir Bob Kerslake, the head of the civil service, write about...
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How CIOs and IT suppliers view GovIT change
By Tony Collins CIOs and IT suppliers give their views on Government ICT in an authoritative report published today by the Institute for Government Inside the wrapper of generally positive words, a...
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IBM won bid without lowest-price – council gives detail under FOI
By Tony Collins Excessive secrecy has characterised a deal between IBM and Somerset County Council which was signed in 2007. Indeed I once went to the council’s offices in Taunton, on behalf of...
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IBM sues its council “partner”
By Tony Collins Earlier this week we reported IBM’s disclosure that it is in dispute with Somerset County Council, its lead partner on a joint venture Southwest One. In its annual statement on...
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DWP starts media campaign on Universal Credit IT tomorrow
By Tony Collins The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has told MPs his department is launching a “major exercise” tomorrow to inform the media about Universal Credit, including progress...
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GP groups want more money for IT from April 2013
By Tony Collins Clinical Commissing Groups [CCGs] should not have to use their budgets to manage the provision of GP practice IT from April 2013, says the General Practitioners Committee of the British...
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Somerset’s dispute with IBM is “escalating”.
By Tony Collins Somerset County Council says in a paper due to be discussed next week that its dispute with the IBM-led Southwest One joint venture is “escalating” and that there is a need to “restore...
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Lessons from a government agile success
By Tony Collins Some central government departments spend a great deal with large suppliers on the development and maintenance of their websites (more on this in a separate post). They could save...
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We spend more on IT per capita than any other government – Maude
By Tony Collins Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, in a speech at the FT Innovate Conference on 6 November 2012, said: “In the last decade our IT costs have gone up – while our services remained...
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Are HMRC’s IT costs under firm control?
By Tony Collins The costs of IT outsourcing at HMRC have soared despite a well-written contract that promised large savings. When, as Inland Revenue, the department first outsourced IT in 1994, annual...
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Success in outsourcing needs political stability says councillors’ panel
By Tony Collins A group of councillors has found, after investigating several large local authority outsourcing contracts, that political stability may be a critical factor in successful deals....
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Lessons from Birmingham Council’s joint venture with Capita
By Tony Collins A report on Service Birmingham – Capita’s joint venture with Birmingham City Council – shows that the deal has been largely successful so far but that trust and relationships may be...
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Universal Credit – the ace up Duncan Smith’s sleeve?
By Tony Collins Some people, including those in the know, suspect Universal Credit will be a failed IT-based project, among them Francis Maude. As Cabinet Office minister Maude is ultimately...
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Big IT suppliers and their Whitehall “hostages”
By Tony Collins Mark Thompson is a senior lecturer in information systems at Cambridge Judge Business School, ICT futures advisor to the Cabinet Office and strategy director at consultancy Methods....
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