by | Nov 17, 2009 | Local government
Councils control just 5% of spend say Place pilots. You don’t need to know much more than that: how can you join up funding streams if they are ll mandated or ring fenced in one way or another? Separately, Nick Raynsford appears to put the easyCouncil model in...
by | Nov 3, 2009 | Local government
Great news for Tata Consultancy Services: a big win in Cardiff.
by | Oct 28, 2009 | Health, ICT, Local government
Herefordshire is joining up its NHS and council IT provision. I wonder whether this lower level of sharing is the way forward as opposed to / alongside shared Chief Executives (given that the nature of the CEO job is mostly dealing with “politics” either...
by | Oct 23, 2009 | Local government
Whether you like the term “total place” or not, the idea of providing services around the citizen rather than through organisational boundaries makes sense. The issue that Birmingham has highlighted is the 1-3 year funding model: Every pound Birmingham...
by | Oct 15, 2009 | ICT, Local government
Interesting take: do you prefer the homebrew Birmingham council website or the council’s own one? Obviously the former can’t work without the latter, but what sort of feed is there from one to the other? Will BCC learn from the relative simplicity and ease...
