by Tom | Apr 25, 2005 | Government
East Riding council has gone well beyond the norm in outsourcing to an international company for its revenues and benefits, customer services and IT among others. The customer services, especially, is a substantial move. They’re looking to get business from...
by Tom | Apr 25, 2005 | Reading
There’s free wireless access in Islington along the Upper Street stretch of the A1 for a while “until a commercial provider can be put in place”. Nice idea.
by Tom | Apr 25, 2005 | Reading
Yet another set of e-readiness rankings from the EIU. Not sure what they measure (or for that matter how they measure anything interesting). However, always useful to have some comparators.
by Tom | Apr 25, 2005 | Government
An unusual survey of e-Government in cities; the “e-Citizenship for All” benchmark survey. There are some sparse results in there, such as the shift of e-Government from a simple response to legislation to an agenda item within councils. The negativity...
by Tom | Apr 25, 2005 | IT
Gantt Chart Links is a nice set of things you can do in Excel to avoid using Gantt charts in MS Project.
by Tom | Apr 25, 2005 | Reading
The Radio Times TV listings grid is quite neat. If you’re logged in, you can have it show the programmes you’re interested in and keep favourites, etc. One for bookmarking on the Mac Mini. [Update: this one’s OK for side by side view as well]
by Tom | Apr 25, 2005 | Government
Public Take-Up of eGovernment Services suggests that ministers aren’t behind e-gov, so no wonder it’s not widely used by the public. Nice use of They work for you as well.These few simple examples show that if the government expects public take-up...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2005 | IT
Cheapish web apps you can evhead: run your company on. Some nice ideas vs self service / hosting.
by Tom | Apr 22, 2005 | Business
Deloitte (US) is reporting that outsourcing doesn’t always prove beneficial. The suggestion is that it is going backwards.
by Tom | Apr 21, 2005 | IT
Burn yourself a floppy or CD to and reset your windows password. I’m sure I’ve noted this before, but I needed it yet again.