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An interesting piece on enterprise transformation by Dion Hinchcliffe set me thinking how often do we seek to build external partnerships without necessarily having strong internal bonds within our own organisation? Of course, it is rare for any enterprise to be entirely self-sufficient so our value chains are usually forged from an intricate mesh of internal and external contributions. Chris Chant is to be applauded for setting out some of the issues in Government IT and for seeking improvements through better systems integration skills. However there is a whole herd of elephants sitting in the middle of the room, including: the political policy/ service fulfilment lag; fanatically policed organisational boundaries; privacy/ security/ legacy data issues; national and supra-national procurement Continue reading article » 
Media flurry about Government IT is simply an unhelpful smokescreen, the focus on high unit costs and poor procurement disguises fundamental issues: policy and lack of effective systems strategy. Continue reading article » Want more business investment for your IT budget? Here are six quick tips to increase your chances of bringing in more business funding for the IT department. 
We all know that scope creep, lack of resources and change are the three greatest enemies of cost-effective IT development projects. In the commercial sector we move heaven and earth to avoid these risks – and yet they seem to be endemic to the management culture within public sector computing. |
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