Paul Seddon is a consultant for Expense Reduction Analysts, the UK’s largest cost and purchase management consultancy.
Continue reading The Savings Crisis: Where to Start?
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Paul Seddon is a consultant for Expense Reduction Analysts, the UK’s largest cost and purchase management consultancy. Continue reading The Savings Crisis: Where to Start?
-In the short term I recognise that steps must be taken to address the consequences of the recession. These understandably have been framed around a trade off between cuts in public spending and tax increases. Continue reading Budget Comment: Professor Peter Latchford
i2, the leading provider of intelligence and investigation software, has formed a formal partnership with leading risk intelligence specialist, World-Check. As a result, i2 customers can benefit from the ability to access highly structured information and create actionable intelligence faster. A new solution was announced here today at i2’s Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) User Conference. Continue reading i2 and World-Check Combine World-class Analytical Tools with World-class Intelligence
Commenting on the latest unemployment figures released today (16 June), Dave Prentis, UNISON’s General Secretary, said: -With unemployment on the up again it makes no sense to throw thousands more people on to the dole queues. Continue reading UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES – UNISON REACTION
The world of hacking has evolved into two major varieties: industrialized attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). There has been a lot of discussion around the validity of APT recently some have even connected APT with panties. But APT is a real threat. So, what’s the difference between APT and industrialized hacking, and how should you respond? Continue reading A Tale of Two Hacks:
Rob Murdoch, Chair of the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) welcomed the further clarity given today by the Government on how existing welfare to work schemes will be replaced by the single Work Programme. Continue reading Welfare to Work Scheme ' improving the lives of the long term unemployed
Responding to the Queen’s Speech announced today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: -The Speech contains important issues to welcome – restoring the state pension link with earnings, cracking down on high-risk activities in the City, and an extra push on green energy. Continue reading Overwhelming focus on reducing the deficit is a huge mistake, says TUC
The Guardian Public Services Awards, in partnership with Hays Specialist Recruitment, launch today. Now in their seventh year, the Awards are the leading celebration of excellence among organisations commissioning or providing services, showcasing innovation and best practice across Whitehall, local government, the NHS and beyond. Continue reading THE GUARDIAN PUBLIC SERVICES AWARDS
Britain’s largest land manager, the Forestry Commission, has awarded Fujitsu a new five-year contract to maintain all of its ICT hardware across the Commission in England, Scotland and Wales. Fujitsu originally won the six-year contract to run the Forestry Commission’s IT in 2003. The new contract was won in a competitive tender through the Catalist framework. Continue reading Forestry Commission awards Fujitsu five year contract to manage IT estate
Lean thinking, and working, has had huge buy-in from across the manufacturing sector for many years now and, more recently, there are increasing numbers of organisations from service and public sectors who are beginning to understand that lean principles and approaches are just as relevant to them. Continue reading Lean thinking for peak public sector performance
Hot on the heels of Audit Scotland’s timely publication on the need to improve public sector efficiency comes the call for written evidence from the Scottish Parliament Finance Committee on what preparations are required by the public sector to deliver efficient public services during a time of tightening public expenditure. The evidence period extends to the end of March but the key themes are not hard to discern. Continue reading Can Political Leaders Deliver On Public Sector Cuts?
A Labour-dominated Select Committee has today slammed Labour Ministers for their botched plans to regionalise the fire service. It declares that the project has -been inadequately planned, poorly executed, and badly managed and a -catalogue of poor judgement and mismanagement. Continue reading Taxpayers foot the bill for catalogue of errors on new Fire HQs
Lesley Strathie, Permanent Secretary at HMRC, responded to the recent review from the Cabinet Office with a spirited defence of her leadership team and the changes they have already made to improve processes and structures within the organisation. Continue reading HMRC ' Structure and speed can achieve Strathie's vision
Living up to its reputation as a specialist in the field of leadership and learning development, pearcemayfield, has launched an audio series on the 2009 edition of project management method PRINCE2. Continue reading TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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