How good is your ICT service?
Does your ICT service deliver value for money? Does it enable and support change in the organisation? Is it efficiently run? Is it pro-active in seeking out the most appropriate technical solutions to meet business needs? And how can you tell?
G-Cloud and G-AS utility computing
Cloud computing has been touted as the model for the future for some time. The recent launch of the government's new ICT strategy sees Cloud (or 'utility') computing finally become a practical and indeed essential approach for public sector organisations.
Heading to the Cloud
Adoption of cloud computing makes complete sense - for user organisations, at least — and most of us already use the cloud on a daily basis as private citizens. What are the obstacles to public sector take-up, and how can they be overcome?
G-Cloud and G-AS - utility computing
Our January briefing last year, Cloud computing on the horizon, stated ‘there is no doubt that that the cloud is here to stay’. Some may have doubted us. Now the cloud (G-Cloud) is the backbone of the government’s ICT strategy, being a ‘key enabler of £3.2 billion savings’. The strategy predicates another £500m of savings on the application store, G-AS. What are these facilities? How and when will they be available?
Learning
In an effort to make “Learning” more focused on the specific needs of our membership, we have reviewed our course offerings and launched a completely new programme for the next 12 months. The new programme offers a wider range of course, at more locations, and with more detail provided on each, to help you judge better who to nominate for the course, and the likely benefits to be achieved from it.
Cloud computing
"The council is considering buying computer applications as services (per transaction) rather than buying, hosting and managing software"
Cloud computing on the horizon (joint Consulting and Insight briefing 4)
This briefing looks at ‘the cloud’ — the use of web resources to provide facilities and services hosted elsewhere on the internet. When public services are under threatening clouds of financial pressure, is this a solution that will allow us to achieve more with less?