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(2/15/2008) Richard Granger, the former head of NHS Connecting for Health, the agency charged with creating and delivering the UK$12.4 billion National Programme for IT in the NHS, has finally left Whitehall. | (1/28/2008) As the result of using government computers to visit an "egregious" number of pornographic Web sites in 2007 nine city employees in the District of Columbia have been fired. | (1/22/2008) The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released a summary of the findings of its investigations into the use of free and open source software (FOSS) within federal government agencies indicating most expect to increase its use over the next five years. | (10/2/2007) The strategic influence of chief information officers is on the decline as churn within the sector hits new heights, according to research. The survey revealed that one in 10 felt their role was becoming less strategic and more than half expect to have moved jobs in the next two years. | (9/28/2007) A Yale University clinical professor says physicians need to know whether the IT investments they're making will be worthwhile. They need to know that the systems they purchase will work with other systems. "It's a daunting challenge we have," agrees Noel Williams, CIO at HCA Inc. "Part of the problem is we have too many standards." | (9/18/2007) The overriding goal of Ontario's Project Management Office is a cultural change to make project management the way the branch operates, day in and day out. There's no top-down rule enforcement, but it does wield a powerful stick. Itb s called controllership, and it comes with a carrot dangling at the end. | (9/18/2007) The overriding goal of Ontario's Project Management Office is a cultural change to make project management the way the branch operates, day in and day out. There's no top-down rule enforcement, but it does wield a powerful stick. Itb s called controllership, and it comes with a carrot dangling at the end. | (9/12/2007) The tragic collapse of a Minneapolis bridge over the Mississippi River in early August received a lot of media attention. But there was a story behind that story that got very little airtime, if any at all: The story of the role of the cityb s municipal Wi-Fi network in the response to and after the disaster. | (8/29/2007) U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley has called for the U.S. government to cancel an ongoing purchasing contract with Sun Microsystems Inc., but the company says Grassley's request is based on bad information. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has repeatedly criticized Sun for allegedly overcharging government agencies while on a government-wide purchasing schedule at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). | (7/31/2007) It is unacceptable for the public sector to resign itself to losing the most senior or valuable IT employees to the private sector. These employees have the critical skills and institutional knowledge and memory. Further, a continual process of employee turnover involves non-trivial hiring and training costs. The new HR paradigm for retention and acquisition is to develop, deploy and connect. | (7/30/2007) It is unacceptable for the public sector to resign itself to losing the most senior or valuable IT employees to the private sector. These employees have the critical skills and institutional knowledge and memory. Further, a continual process of employee turnover involves non-trivial hiring and training costs. The new HR paradigm for retention and acquisition is to develop, deploy and connect. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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