Items tagged with : Government
Accelerating Innovation in a Regulated World
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #23 Spring 2011 How can regulation and innovation – frequently considered to be opposing...
04 April 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, Global,Big Society: big trouble for public sector workers?
In recent weeks, we’ve seen the Prime Minister fiercely defending his Big Society project against criticisms that it is just a ‘cover’ for spending cu...
04 March 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, Global, OLD ARTICLES, All Columns,Consultancy Captain
Alan Leaman is the CEO of the UK’s Management Consultancies Association (MCA). At a time when the relationship between consultancies and government is...
15 December 2010 | Articles, Europe, UK,Delivering back-office savings in the UK public sector
Public sector organisations are being challenged by the coalition government "to cut senior officials’ pay and share back-office functions with o...
10 February 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK,Delivering public service through social enterprises: the next Big Idea?
The much anticipated and long overdue Public Services White Paper finally appeared towards the end of July. It left many people with decidedly mixed f...
17 August 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Europe, UK, All Columns,Delivering Savings from UK Public Sector Shared Service Centres
Colin Grace looks at how shared service centres for the UK's public sector need to be expanded and leveraged more coherently in order to bring ab...
26 October 2010 | Articles, Europe, UK,Fair Deal or No Deal?
In June 2010, Lord Hutton was asked by the government to lead a review of public service pension provision. The Hutton Report (published on 10 March 2...
13 April 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, All Columns, Legal,Government cuts - unparalleled opportunity for outsourcing firms?
For the outsourcing sector, the business and economic backdrop, though gloomy from a macro economic perspective, holds a number of positives. Indeed g...
20 September 2010 | All Columns, Global, UK, Europe, Articles,Government ICT policy: throwing the baby out with the bath water?
As I suggested in last week’s blog, it seems as though the wind of change is blowing hard through public sector procurement processes at the moment – ...
14 April 2011 | All Columns, UK, Articles,Government Procurement & Commissioning
Public sector procurement spend is £221bn a year, about one third of total public sector expenditure. The coalition Government has made it clear that ...
08 September 2010 | Events, Procurement, Europe, UK,Intelligent customers: UK healthcare
Healthcare in the United Kingdom is provided by the government through its healthcare provider, the NHS. The NHS is one of the largest employers in...
01 February 2012 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, UK, All Columns,Midsummer murders or winter of discontent?
They were summoned (or summonsed ... you decide) to appear ... the challenge was clear: how to incentivise the top echelon of IT suppliers to UK gover...
27 October 2010 | Articles, IT, Europe, UK, All Columns,Multi-sourcing: driving the outsourcing industry?
Last August I used these pages to spell out the advantages and disadvantages of multi-sourcing in light of changes to the way contracts were being sou...
07 June 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, All Columns,Nick Mellors
Nick Mellors is Director of ISPB, a consultancy specialising in delivering public sector change and transformation projects. He has over 30 years'...
05 October 2011 | Global, UK, Europe, Functions Other, Legal, Logistics, Customer Service, Procurement, IT, HR, Finance & Accounting, Columnists,Open Public Services White Paper: a golden opportunity for outsourcers?
Outsourcing has long been an effective method of streamlining businesses and cutting costs, and in times of austerity, its importance once again comes...
17 October 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Europe, All Columns, UK,Outsourcing suppliers: are they really all fat cats?
This week’s episode of Channel 4’s current affairs documentary series, Dispatches, raised a number of interesting points around whether outsourcing su...
24 March 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,Outsourcing training takes a slice of the pie
There is no doubt that we have seen a huge increase in outsourcing deals in recent years, especially since the Government Spending Review was announce...
27 April 2011 | Articles, UK, Global, All Columns,Post-Election Thoughts (Part 1)
As part of the research into the lead article for the autumn issue of Outsource (Outsource 21, published next week), on sourcing in the post-election ...
01 September 2010 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Functions Other, Legal, Europe, UK,Post-Election Thoughts (Part 2)
As part of the research into the lead article for the autumn issue of Outsource (Outsource 21, out now - see our Subscriptions page to find out how yo...
10 September 2010 | UK, Europe, Legal, Functions Other, Logistics, Customer Service, Procurement, IT, HR, Finance & Accounting, Articles,Post-Election Thoughts (Part 3)
As part of the research into the lead article for the autumn issue of Outsource (Outsource 21, out now - see our Subscriptions page to find out how yo...
01 October 2010 | Articles, Europe, UK, Global,Predicting the Success of a Public-Private Partnership (Part 1)
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 Being a public service delivery organisation means that you are consta...
28 September 2011 | UK, Europe, Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Public sector outsourcing: tackling the SME challenge
In its first year, the coalition government initiated a hiatus of activity and announcements. I’ve heard a Tory MP describe it as a policy "blitz...
06 June 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, All Columns,Public Sector Roundtable: To Share, or Not to Share?
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 As government-imposed cuts continue to impact upon the UK’s public sec...
28 September 2011 | UK, Europe, Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Some none too subtle shifts in the commerce of outsourcing
Transformational change always takes longer than the early adopters believe is either likely or reasonable – but if the drivers for the change are rea...
11 October 2010 | Global, UK, Articles, All Columns,Taking the Chair
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 Earlier this year Rajendra ‘Raji’ Pawar, co-founder and chairman of IT...
28 September 2011 | Global, South/Central Asia, Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, India, All Columns,The challenges of emerging from recession
On the surface, the future for UK outsourcing firms might appear rosy. The Coalition Government’s severe cuts in public sector funding will undoubtedl...
29 October 2010 | Articles, Europe, UK, All Columns,The era of easy assumptions about outsourcing is over
Gone are the days when there was a natural consensus, never mind zeal, in support of this reform. Now there are more likely to be public doubts – abou...
27 October 2011 | Legal, Logistics, Customer Service, Procurement, IT, HR, Finance & Accounting, Articles, Functions Other, Europe, UK, All Columns,The Post-Election Landscape
It’s the greatest British political story of our age – but what does the advent of coalition politics mean for the sourcing space in the UK? With a go...
17 September 2010 | Articles, UK, Europe, Legal, Functions Other, Logistics, Customer Service, Procurement, IT, HR, Finance & Accounting,The View from the Board: Editorial Board Roundtable Winter 2010
Outsource: John, you're hosting, so let's kick off with you: looking generally at the trends for 2011 how different a year do you think its ...
17 December 2010 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global,Why suppliers should not be held up as outsourcing scapegoats
Of all the rumour and, in some cases, intrigue surrounding outsourcing in the public sector, one of the most interesting has been the recent saga surr...
01 June 2011 | Articles, UK, Global, All Columns,Winds of change: reflections on US healthcare reform
US healthcare reform, officially titled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or PPACA, became law in the United States on March 23, 2010. Ho...
11 November 2010 | Articles, North America / Caribbean, USA, All Columns,
Outsource magazine and the ACCA announce an exclusive partnership
