by | Jan 26, 2010 | Central government, Finance, ICT, Procurement
John Suffolk (Government CIO) expects a fun year ahead. I have tried to do some back of the envelope calculations based on his items and numbers in the OEP. My italics, all errors mine. HR must move to 1 HR person to 77 FTE from a median of 1:44 (Guesstimate saving on...
by | Dec 7, 2009 | Central government, eGovernment, Finance, ICT, Procurement, Shared Services
Lots to digest in the Smarter Government report. Headlines: another £12bn in savings over the £26bn from Gershon and £35bn from OEP. In all, that’s approaching 10% of government spend. [NB Steph rightly counsels caution on the numbers.] Good to see that they...
by | Nov 3, 2009 | Central government, Finance
It looks like the public sector has increased its cost of output by 1.3% more than the wider economy over the decade 1997-2007. Not good news, and an indicator of just how difficult a task the next government will have.