Public Sector IT Enemy Number One: Policy

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We all know that scope creep, lack of resources and change are the three greatest enemies of cost-effective IT development projects. In the commercial sector we move heaven and earth to avoid these risks – and yet they seem to be endemic to the management culture within public sector computing.

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Parliament investigates effective governance of IT

Public Administration Committee

Good governance: the effective use of IT

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Committee Room 6 Meeting started at 10.33am ended at 12.33pm

Witnesses Professor Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute, Dr Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute, and Dr Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics Professor Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, and Sir Ian Magee, Institute for Government.

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Dynamic discussion, sans frontieres

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Geopolitical events of 2011 have demonstrated the power of so-called Social Media, leading to terms being coined such as “Facebook revolution.” However, I believe that it is Twitter that has now matured into the de facto interactive, multi-channel broadcasting media that facilitates effective, dynamic discussion at every level: parochial, regional, national and global.

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"Ask a carpenter about a leaking pipe and you will get a boat"

“Ask a carpenter about a leaking pipe and you will get a boat” – Colin Beveridge READ MORE

"Ask a carpenter about a leaking pipe and you will get a boat"

“Ask a carpenter about a leaking pipe and you will get a boat” – Colin Beveridge READ MORE

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