Dennis Lock believes that project management depends largely on common sense and a logical, systematic approach. But he argues that it is necessary also to acquire some special skills to organize, schedule and control a project so that it produces the result that everyone wants.
This report gives a snap-shot of the status of social investment innovation. It describes how public-private partnership structures are emerging.
The report from the Cabinet Office draws together the insights of senior policy-makers, investors, advisors, academics and analysts from over ten countries. It highlights a range of issues in the development of the social investment market. It also describes new social finance instruments, the experience of implementing Social Impact Bonds and the recently launched government initiatives to tackle social problems through payment by results.
Concerns about reform proposals to reduce the child to staff ratio, not to upgrade staff qualifications and to cut councils out of assessment processes have emerged from a new survey of frontline care networks.
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The Government is to set up a new multi-agency network to drive the transformation of local public services. The network will spread innovation from the Whole-Place Community Budget pilots and What Works Centres to support other places at key stages to provide advice and support on co-designing local public service transformation.
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Under-funding and fragmented strategies have left healthcare IT systems severely wanting. Many hospital systems depend on networks put in when the building was constructed. In this article Mark Pearce explains how wireless networks can overcome these
drawbacks and get information quickly to clinical staff.
This Briefing from the Society of IT Management warns heads of ICT that they are not an automatic choice for the new role of digital leader.
Digital leaders appointed so far in central government have tended not to be IT specialists, citing examples of people with backgrounds in banking and local authority management with leadership experience in transformation, efficiency, customer service and marketing.
Small firms believe that the extra levy payable from April on top of standard business rates will bring little or no benefits.
The Forum of Private Business asked members for for their views on how the new supplementary Business Rates will benefit them. The money will be spent on local projects after consultation with councils.
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The focus of government IT has moved from procuring large scale systems to providing digital services. The first result of this major change in thinking was the axing of the CIO role. The CIO was head of the Government IT Profession and chair of the IT Profession Board that has representatives from government departments.
Maxine Park explains the benefits of recording and transcribing reviews, interviews and hearings. Although an initial disciplinary matter may be dealt with informally, with a quiet word off the record, formal proceedings require strict adherence to the organisation’s policies.
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