The 69 per cent of your IT budget that is the upgrade, maintenance and life-cycle support costs is effectively the asset rot that your customers have to pay for in the inflated cost of goods. The build and junk cycle that took us from mainframe to...
The typical life cycle of a government IT project has been repeated again and again: big contract announced; protracted tendering process; big systems integrator wins deal; personnel change, specifications shift, project runs over budget; project...
In a well run commercial company, costly projects are decided by reference to some quite simple financial principles, known collectively as the capital asset allocation problem. It seems that many a PFI project claims to provide financial gains...
A headhunting firm has now started searching for someone to fill the position, which offers a £145,000 salary - although that is somewhat less than Gershon, who was briefly the highest-paid civil servant, currently takes home.
With the opposition parties against the ID card scheme and a general election likely in the next two years, some suppliers could be concerned about a change of government endangering the ID card scheme.
One is the tendency of the parties to move away from the contract from day one. While advice abounds on how to approach and set up outsourcing deals in the first place - choosing the right supplier, procurement process, due diligence and so on - we...