Shared services

Shame that this Socitm report comes down to “a lengthy procurement process” for shared services. It doesn’t have to be that way.

e-Gov news

Some useful things around the e-Gov space:Tom Steinberg has hit the No.10 website with a petitioning system. Excellent stuff – I’ve signed a few of them. Good to see No.10 experimenting with this sort of approach – let’s see how the feedback on...

Gershon summary

A nice summary of what’s going on in SR04 from the man who kicked it all off. A play to rejoin the public sector?

Accenture out of NPfIT

It’s been trailled for a while, but interesting to see that Accenture has finally pulled out of NPfIT.[Update: some musings from the OGC on risk for suppliers. And £30m more for Government Connect.]