Elimination of investment in lower value initiatives in exchange for higher value strategic technology investment appears to be the overriding objective. Cheap, rapid communications have enabled greater numbers of untried, untested ideas and...
Plagnol also said the two objectives that had been set for the project are to "bring the IT systems of different administrations closer together and make them interoperable" and "drive and oversee concrete projects across departments".
Ident1 - a programme funded by the Home Office, the Capital Modernisation Fund and the Scottish Executive - will also be used for future initiatives such as mobile fingerprint checking, facial imaging and video identification.
Although the intricacies of the reorganisation are interesting in their own right, they are largely secondary to the go-to-market initiatives IGS is pushing ahead with. Nonetheless, the degree of near-anarchic independence that country operations...
He explains: "We had IT operating in 64 countries around the world, each of them autonomous, so we didn't have a single IT group, we really had 64 independent IT operations and each of them pursuing their own agendas more or less to support the...
This period is too long and it's not in fact data destruction, it's more data de-identification, and that should be happening in 18 to 24 hours, not months. By logging IP addresses and search strings they are running the largest intelligence...