Governmentium

I hadn’t come across governmentium before. I have now. Link was www.dullmen.com/governmentium.htm but marked as malware. Here’s a newer link.

Shared services watered down?

I’m not sure that’s exactly the message that John Suffolk wanted to get across…The Cabinet Office has effectively dropped the idea of requiring largegroups of Whitehall departments to merge their corporate services underthe transformational...

Government news

Public sector outsourcing will grow by £25bn by 2012/13. It doesn’t feel that way on the ground. Even a £10bn rise in services to government feels too low to interest suppliers.Our e-Government services seem to work quite well in the latest Capgemini...

Innovation and inclusion

Two items very close to things we’ve worked on before: Audit Commission on Innovation in local authorities and the eInclusion@EU project.

Targets and transformation

Targets are set to be slashed. The number of targets, not the levels, necessarily. The need to cut costs suggests that new targets will be even fiercer than previously, even if there are fewer of them.Looks like Transformational Government is not dead, with the...