SAP an unseen player in Germany’s World Cup win
By Tony Collins Brian McKenna of Computer Weekly has written an excellent article which shows the role played by SAP – headquartered in Germany – in the national football team’s victory over Argentina...
View ArticleWhy was NHS e-Referral service launched with 9 pages of known problems?
By Tony Collins Were GPs guinea pigs for live testing of the new national NHS e-Referral Service? Between 2004 and 2010 the Department of Health marked as confidential its lists of problems with...
View ArticleAspire: eight lessons from the UK’s biggest IT contract
By Tony Collins How do you quit a £10bn IT contract in which suppliers have become limbs of your organisation? Thanks to reports by the National Audit Office, the questioning of HMRC civil servants by...
View ArticleInside Universal Credit IT – analysis of document the DWP didn’t want published
By Tony Collins Written evidence the Department for Work and Pensions submitted to an FOI tribunal – but did not want published (ever) – reveals that there was an internal “lack of candour and honesty...
View ArticleAtos pleased after it’s cleared of “sharp practice”
By Tony Collins A Cabinet Office review of the Whitehall contracts of IT services company Atos following a Public Accounts Committee allegation of “sharp practice” has more than exonerated the...
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