Government could save £7bn a year on IT, ex-Logica chief reports - Rebecca Tomson, ComputerWeekly.com April 16, 2009
In an article quoting from a report done by Martin Read, former CEO of Logica, Rebecca Tomson outlines some key ways that Great Britains government could reduce IT spending by £7bn a year. While £4bn of this would come from back office savings, £3.2bn would come from reductions in IT spending.
Read's recommendations center around tightening up governance in the area of IT project spending. Some of the recommendations in Read's report:
These recommendations are part of an overall program the government hopes will save a total of £35bn by 2010 - 2011.
If some of these recommendations sound familiar to you project management practitioners, they should because they're the reason you've been given the authority to run the project. Not only can these recommendations save the British government large sums, they will also be effective in saving money for any company managing Information Technology. The catch is, of course, that while these recommendations are certainly valid, they are very broad and there is no roadmap provided with this report for implementing them.
If you're a project manager who has passed PMI's exam and become a PMP® certified practitioner you already know that most of the recommendations are covered in great detail in the PMBOK®. You'll not only know how to implement them, what tools to use, what techniques will work best in your IT group, you'll also know what information you need for implementation and what outputs you can expect.
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