Telford & Wrekin Council protects data on laptops and tablets using Becrypt DISK Protect Becrypt help Telford & Wrekin Council to: • Protect sensitive data on staff computers • Centrally manage their encryption estate • Reduce time and administration resource • Adhere to regulatory compliance Telford Case Study Islington Council meets austerity measures and provides [...]
A previous blog posting looked at evidence of how change programmes designed to save money and streamline shared services in UK Central Government appear to have come off the rails during delivery. Obviously, none of these programmes set out with the intention of failing and, presumably, they had business cases considered “robust” by those who approved [...]
Should mobile devices and smartphones coming into the workplace be regulated or embraced? The US federal government, good at both regulating and embracing things, urges that a balance be struck between the two. Don’t fight the trend, advises the government’s Digital Services Advisory Group, formed and directed by federal CIO Steven VanRoekel. Rather, go with [...]
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UK Buzz Index for August 2012 In this month’s edition… The Top 20 UK councils for new online buzz Spotlights stories: * Social Media and Welfare Reform Consultation Buzz & Media Mix and Council Service Buzz The Top 20 These are the councils that have seen the biggest increases in the volume of online buzz [...]
We were asked by the then Secretary of State for Business in the autumn of 2008 to take an in-depth look at employee engagement and to report on its potential benefits for companies, organisations and individual employees. When the new Secretary of State, Lord Mandelson, met us in the spring, as the recession was biting, [...]
This case study explores the benefits of data matching work, carried out by Leeds City Council, between the local address data and council tax and business rates records. Through this work, the team have discovered £92,826 additional annual revenue. Leeds City Council has a corporate address gazetteer which underpins the majority of their services either [...]
In March 2012, PwC conducted an online survey of local authority chief executives to explore how councils have coped with central government funding cuts. This survey was a follow up to one PwC carried out in summer 2011 and was aimed at understanding where councils have generated savings, and the actions they have taken as [...]
If you are looking at a Flexible/Home/Agile Working project/programme, you will be interested n the “Workstyles for the Public Sector” workshops that Paul Allsop is running around the country with Public Networks. Details of what, when and where can be found here UK workers on average spend the equivalent of a day every fortnight travelling to [...]
If you are looking at a Flexible/Home/Agile Working project/programme, you will be interested n the “Workstyles for the Public Sector” workshops that Paul Allsop is running around the country with Public Networks. Details of what, when and where can be found here The key role of office property is to support an organisation and its [...]
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