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Implementing Effective ICT: Bill McCluggage on government reform
A presentation on the government ICT strategy given by deputy government CIO Bill McCluggage at the 'Implementing Effective ICT' summit in December 2011. This major Summi...
Implementing Effective ICT: Public Service Network
A presentation on the Public Service Network given by programme director Craig Eblett at the 'Implementing Effective ICT' summit in December 2011. This major Summit event...
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Upcoming Civil Service World Events
Upcoming Civil Service World Events Civil Service World and the Post Office are working together to host a week-long series of free-to-attend seminars for public servants...
Policy Focus: infrastructure and project management
The coalition has put investment in infrastructure at the heart of its growth plans, and is expecting civil servants to ensure that crucial infrastructure projects are del...
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World peace or a piece of crystallised fruit?
I've stumbled across a small tale that brilliantly illustrates the importance of thinking before you answer a question. Sir Oliver Franks was Ambassador to the United Sta...
Filling the Harley-shaped hole
It was announced yesterday that government’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), Joe Harley, is leaving at the end of the financial year. This is something of a shock...
Wire posts
News
Departing Benita urges focus on diversity and robust advice
The recent gains in the diversity of the civil service may slip back this year, former senior civil servant and London mayoral candidate Siobhan Benita has warned. Speaki...
Betts: ‘Planning not a barrier’
Leading figures in local government argued that there’s no evidence of the economic need for reform of the planning system at the Local Government Summit last week.Speak...
Analysis_opinion
Officials must fulfil their duty to challenge poor policies This newspaper has for some time argued that after the May 2010 election, the civil service went so far out o...
Editorial: If it’s not working, do something else
After a year of painful austerity, we’re worse off than ever.As the chancellor’s Autumn Statement made clear yesterday, the government’s plans to cut us back to grow...
Interviews
With infrastructure development a key plank of the government’s growth strategy, the Treasury’s investment team Infrastructure UK has an ever-more important role to pl...
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
The incoming cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, Jeremy Heywood and Bob Kerslake, are taking on their new jobs at a time of unprecedented financial, policy an...
Features
A plan of action for plans of action
Many public sector projects struggle to stay on time and on budget, and civil servants are under growing pressure to improve their game. Joshua Chambers asks the experts h...
Frontline: A workforce development manager explains the impact of policy on working life
A workforce development manager says cuts have hit local authority support for vulnerable young people.“I’m a workforce development manager for children’s services i...
Round_tables
Which technologies will change the way we work, and which are just a flash in the pan? Suzannah Brecknell reports on a discussion of how new technologies are set to transf...
Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets
Whitehall departments have made good progress in cutting their carbon emissions: civil servants exceeded David Cameron’s goal of a 10 per cent reduction in twelve months...
Special_report
Special report: How efficient is your department?
Last week, departments published figures showing their spending on a range of back office functions. Suzannah Brecknell analyses what they reveal about departments’ effi...
Special report: SCS recruitment
In a Special Report analysing six years of recruitment data, Joshua Chambers reports on how senior civil service recruitment has chan...
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Groups
A group for professionals with an interest in tackling fraud, error and debt across the public sector. Join this group to access presentations and videos from past confer...
Lean Sourcing Process (was Licence to Source Network)
This is where procurement practitioners can access the lean sourcing standard solution sets including value stream maps, standard operating procedures, visual management p...
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Any questions for online services minister Jim Knight?
Civil Service World will soon be interviewing Labour minister Jim Knight about the move of public services online, as set out in the Smarter Government paper. What questions would you like to put to him? Leave me a comment on this post, or email me if you want to remain anonymous. NB: Y...
Tags: Transformation, online services, e-government
Caught in the webLast week’s Smarter Government strategy gave departments a hard push towards online services – and suggested that service users should receive equally powerful encouragements to get on the web. Matt Ross reports It has become something of a running joke that, whenever anyone ...
Tags: gus o'donnell, gordon brown, government, politics and public administration, civil service, e-government, public services, reform of public services
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Comment on "More targets? I thought they were a thing of the past"
I would like to try and speak up for targets as the alternative would seem to be much worse? - If done properly couldn't having clear targets can act...