Nearly 6m working for central government (including health). That’s a good 30% of the work force. Interesting to see it broken down so precisely by department and agency.
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Tories call for IT procurement shake-up. An interesting spin on the standards debate:
- Standards will allow open source to compete effectively
- Standards will enable programmes to be broken down into
E-procurement adoption stalls suggests that the reasons for eProcurement slowing in the public sector are slightly different to those in the private sector (skills compared with poor change management).
Sounds like Essex hasn’t started its stakeholder management very effectively, as the unions are already up in arms.
And despite the headline, the fact that three quarters of councils are up-and-running with Government Connect is pretty impressive. Especially given the stringent security conditions attached to connection.
Departmental ICT: DWP. CLG funding into DWP has gone up enormously since DWP took it over. And a
Self Assessment – The Working Out is More Important Then The Answer. Spot on. This is exactly the result we have found running an analogous process with the procurement community in the NHS. The conversation about why people are rating themselves the level they do and how they might improve is the most powerful piece of the process.
Tactics that deliver in a ‘war for cash’ looks at the growing gulf between the cash haves and have-nots. Will the government be able to reach its 10-day prompt payment stipulation? I think it is unlikely, as the processes to support this are not in place. The sheer impact of this much cash flowing out of the public sector could also larger than expected.
EU sets e-health map for 2009. Lots on interoperability there, mostly for clinical health records, but even so still relevant for NPEP.