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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 'Implemen...major Summit event brought together government departments, executive agencies, non dep...nbsp;  Bill McCluggage - Deputy Government CIO, ICT Strategy and Policy,...

55 days ago

Implementing Effective ICT: Public Service Network

...summit in December 2011. This major Summit event brought together government departments, executive agencies, non dep...d challenges of reform.    Bill McCluggage - Deputy Government CIO, ICT Strategy and Policy,...

55 days ago

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Partners and Exhibitors - Balfour Beatty WorkPlace

...Beatty WorkPlace is a leading provider of Business Services and Facilities Management.  We have many long standing relationships with government departments including a major national co...

225 days ago

Partners and Exhibitors - Danwood

...bstantial savings is in the print arena. Danwood is delivering an effective, outsourced, managed print solution to a whole host of central government departments to help them achieve savings...

230 days ago

Top-level pages

Upcoming Civil Service World Event

...ntacts to support innovative and efficient ways working in their own departments. Officials will learn from the good practice already established across government, and from representatives of p...

2 days ago

Sponsored feature: building the future

...ng the country. He is Head of Government & Public for construction...rovide an opportunity for the government to work with commercial bodie...rmation as possible about the government’s procurement prioritie...overnment level or in the big departments. We are proud of our contribu...

7 days ago

Blog posts

Change across the civil service

...ffice and across the whole of government, civil servants have worked t...vice reforms announced by any government.How are we doing? Well, there...and joining up the centre of government on key issues.The civil servi...commercial sector skills into departments.This is just a snapshot of th...

166 days ago

Opening the gates to Trojan mutuals

...ial to observe that, under this government, the UK’s public sector...In facing that challenge, the government has talked up the benefits of...than the overstretched arms of government. Many DWP contractors have re...h; tried to persuade government departments to put more business their wa...

377 days ago

Wire posts

The Government has published August progress updates for each departments business plans: http://t.co/txjGLHS

152 days ago

anyone working on travel reduction strategies for central government departments? Would be very interested to hear from you on or off record

531 days ago

News

Fraud strategy makes spend-recovery audits compulsory

All departments, agencies and non-departmental bodies will have to com...aud and recover the money. “Departments are free to choose their supp...ng this approach, using cross-government data and matching it to inform...e’ to share data across all departments by April 2012. Further, the D...

5 hours ago

New website test version launched

The government moved a step closer to its new sin...itlement. The site builds on the Government Digital Service’s work deve...will begin testing a single, cross-government publishing platform, which ai...ion currently hosted by individual departments.

5 hours ago

Analysis_opinion

The arguments for arguing

...f the new ministers had experienced life in government, that many Tories instinctive...ems, for civil servants to accept that many departments got things wrong in the earl...policies still survive at the heart of the government’s work – as this week’s...

5 days ago

Leading for less

...ntal reform in Whitehall, the government’s wider ambitions for publi...etting better for less across government, he said; it would not only s...tructures should play a role: departments need “good people on boards...p that’s been outsourced by departments over the last 20 years”.All...

68 days ago

Interviews

Interview: Geoffrey Spence

...forward at contracts that the government is going to let”, covering...says Spence: while government departments protect their own bits of inf...r partly privately funded. “Government still has a role, of course,...information, which would help departments review their spend and procur...

6 days ago

Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood

...y it is right and proper that government look at all the issues that i...– can be done by individual departments alone,” argues Sir Bob. ...department; and as many other departments begin to emerge from the toug...re a test of how well central government can understand the issues at l...

7 days ago

Features

A plan of action for plans of action

...stic cost projections is that departments will have to juggle ongoing...chemes collapse. However, the government wants to give doomed schemes...king about contracts than the government side.” For example, some co...Eurofighter is a big one: the government is buying 160 planes, in its b...

6 days ago

Listening in on the leaders

...ctor of strategy for UK civil government at HP, summarises the message...uction is the right thing for government [to do].” In Canada, the go...l recently, led by a minority government and much of the focus was on...Unit’ is working with other departments. Sergey Myasoedov, vice recto...

48 days ago

Round_tables

Round table: Tomorrow's world

...sue online services can leave departments struggling to reach all part...to minimise interactions with government, he said, and lacks “an und...d like to interact with their government in the future.The technology t...rtment’s systems. For large departments, he said, engaging with new t...

6 days ago

Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets

...ment in its new contracts.The Government Procurement Service, which is...solution” across the board.Departments should not just consider sust...vil servants procuring across government, many of whom lack the time, i...ata should be produced across departments, even if this will be a diffi...

28 days ago

Special_report

Special report: How efficient is your department?

...alyses what they reveal about departments’ efficiency – and about the weakness of government data. Last Thursday was a bum...to consider the efficiency of departments’ HR functions, the amount t...of the annexes reveals which departments haven’t got the processes t...

90 days ago

Special report: SCS recruitment

...ment. “We’ve seen departments be much more selective about...ome SCS recruits from outside government – even retaining those n...bring specialist skills into departments – hence the high cost....und 2005-’06, where the government decided to go out into the mar...

115 days ago

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...gh exhibition stands, sponsorship, taking part in content sessions or hosting discussions. With over 6,000 civil servants from across all government departments expected to attend the event...

10 days ago

...ts fifth year, Civil Service Live is established as the largest gathering of civil servants in the country. It brings together people from government departments and agencies under one roof t...

16 days ago

Companies

SAP

...tion of this – we count thousands of government organisations serving tens of...information and integrate processes across government departments, between tiers of government...p; We run shared services systems on a pan-government scale, for example in both Den...

84 days ago

Groups

Lean Sourcing Process (was Licence to Source Network)

...continuous improvement in consultation with departments. © Crown Copyright 2011 Y...poses under the terms of the Non-Commercial Government Licence. To view this licence....nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/ or write to the Infor...

63 days ago

Civil Service Physical Activity Challenge

...and Una and Jonathan have written to all government departments urging them to sign up.  Th...taff to ‘get physical’. This includes Departments, their arms length bodies, ag...itive sport. The Challenge starts now and Departments have 12 months to build up to...

145 days ago

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'Allo 'allo

A quarter of a century ago, there was a major drive to get civil servants talking in plain English. But jargon is winning the day again, says Marie Clair: the government must renew its campaign for officials to communicate clearly in simple, straightforward language“’Allo ’allo, I vill say ...

Tags: government departments

754 days ago

Radical environmental action promised

Departments will adopt increasingly radical and innovative ways to become more sustainable, ministers have promisedDepartments will adopt increasingly radical and innovative ways to become more sustainable, ministers have promised.Treasury minister Ian Pearson has made the promise as figures for ...

Tags: ian pearson, environmental sustainability, government departments, government spending, Procurement

754 days ago

Comments

Comment on "A Map for the Future?"

...asp) which allows OGC to help government departments to record information about all the properties central government bodies own, use, control, occ...bsp;to supplement where other departments may have skill shortages and...imitless and long overdue for departments to explore and I will look fo...

716 days ago

Comment on "Social Networking in Central Government"

...bates going not only in our own Departments but across Government? First of all we need a platf...lent example where even Central Government is getting in on the act. There are many Departments who ‘Tweet’ polic...;hear’ what their Central Government Department is ‘tweeting&...

837 days ago