Nothing too surprising there: Shared services has got a new chunk of money since we were involved in it. It seems suspiciously similar to the number that DfT started with.
Monthly Archive for April, 2009
McK has argued that cloud computing isn’t necessarily a panacea for larger businesses. There’s been some serious argument about their numbers. For a smaller company, I can’t see much reason to roll your own. The likes of Amazon have thought through all of the scaling, redundancy, backup, power, resilience options that you just don’t have time to.
The sheer volume of patients on lost waiting lists doesn’t augur well for the continued roll-out of Connecting for Health. Fine, it’s a big programme, but you would normally schedule a lot of resource at the early adopters to iron out issues like this.
Cerner is looking to a Facebook-style platform to help drive innovation and knowledge sharing between users.
Some good tips here. Not rocket science, but that’s not always necessary.
- Measure (what gets measured, gets done)
- Assess economies of scale
- Check contracts, because prices have dropped significantly
- Ask how suppliers are used – can some suppliers be put out to pasture?
- Manage suppliers after a contract has been signed
Good discussion from Airbus: how can they build one-sixth as many planes without losing expertise, weakening the supply chain and be ready when an upturn occurs?
Horrible name, but VPEC-T looks like a useful framework to bring the human element back in to technology systems design.
The full set of Procurement Capability Reviews has been published. Not pleasant reading for most.
TCS wins a major contract with the new Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. Off-the-shelf products aggregated rather than new build.