A draft version of a new UK government IT strategy has been leaked onto the web, revealing ambitious targets to deliver nearly £9bn of annual savings within the next 10 years.
Reactions to the plan in some quarters are likely to vary along the cynicism scale between “about time” and “here we go again”.
There’s no doubt that the new strategy is hitting the zeitgeist of current technology trends – cloud computing, app stores, shared services, open source and green IT are central tenets, and are no less welcome for their fashionable status.
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/read-all-about-it/2009/11/the-challenges-for-a-new-gover.html
In these days of such rapid change, the value of a strategy that is justified by cost saving targets in 2020 has to be questioned. If the strategy was written two years ago, it would not have mentioned cloud computing nor app stores, so how can we say with authority today that such concepts will not have been overtaken by 2012, let along 2020?
A draft version of a new UK government IT strategy has been leaked onto the web, revealing ambitious targets to deliver nearly £9bn of annual savings within the next 10 years.
Reactions to the plan in some quarters are likely to vary along the cynicism scale between “about time” and “here we go again”.
There’s no doubt that the new strategy is hitting the zeitgeist of current technology trends – cloud computing, app stores, shared services, open source and green IT are central tenets, and are no less welcome for their fashionable status.
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/read-all-about-it/2009/11/the-challenges-for-a-new-gover.html
In these days of such rapid change, the value of a strategy that is justified by cost saving targets in 2020 has to be questioned. If the strategy was written two years ago, it would not have mentioned cloud computing nor app stores, so how can we say with authority today that such concepts will not have been overtaken by 2012, let along 2020?