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Shared Services: The Practicalities of Local Council Cost Reduction

Overview Local government in the UK has been undergoing modernisation initiatives centred on IT. Substantial investments have been made in digitising the way that local government delivers public services, managesoperations and creates efficiencies. With so much progress having been made, attention is now turning to how IT managers can reduce costs without disrupting the progress of modernisation programmes.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Speed Communications	File Format	WORD
Date Published	September 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Ethernet, Network Design, MPLS, Performance Budgeting and Management

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