• Home
  • Blog
  • Who We Are
  • Contact
  • Sponsors
Enterprise Irregulars
Smart Thinking for the Smart Enterprise
  • Featured Posts
  • Business
  • Technology / Software
  • Trends & Concepts
  • Startup Lessons

UK

Government and IT: A recipe for rip-offs

Government and IT: A recipe for rip-offs

By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 1, 2011

That’s the title of a report by the  Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the UK House of Commons. It says “The Government’s over-reliance on large contractors for its IT needs combined with a lack of in-house skills is a “recipe for rip-offs”. The committee found that as a result IT procurement too often resulted […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged government, Public Administration Select Committee, rip-off, UK

UK health service abandons massive IT centralization plan

UK health service abandons massive IT centralization plan

By Michael Krigsman on September 9, 2010

The UK Department of Health (NHS) announced plans to scrap a single, nationwide health IT system, signaling an end to the “greatest IT disaster in history.”

Posted in Business | Tagged Department of Health, Health, Information technology, Infrastructure, National Health Service, UK, United Kingdom

US and UK governments prioritising Green technologies in patent applications

US and UK governments prioritising Green technologies in patent applications

By Tom Raftery on January 26, 2010

I was talking to Paul Craane of Chicago law firm Marshall, Gerstein & Borun today. Paul is a patent attorney an interest in Green technologies. Paul got in touch because he wanted to highlight the fact that the US Green Technology Pilot Program, a special program announced by the US Patent and Trademark office at […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged green inventions, green patents, Green technologies, intellectual property, intellectual property office, Patent application, UK, uspto

feed mail facebook twitter linkedin

EI Tweets

My Tweets

Popular Posts

  • The Un-Booth: Guerilla Marketing at the HR Technology Show
  • ERP, 20 years ago: the move to go global
  • Friday Rant: Coupa Sam Talks Smack to Ariba Spendman
  • Google’s Woes and the Right to Be Pixilated
  • VoloMetrix Knows What You’re Doing at Work
  • News Analysis: Infor’s Cloud Strategy Goes Azure With Infor24
  • Strategy, Business Model, and Who's Your Customer
  • How Services CPQ Helps Close Revenue Gaps

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Authors

  • Anshu Sharma
  • Bob Warfield
  • Brian Sommer
  • Dave Kellogg
  • David Terrar
  • Denis Pombriant
  • Dion Hinchcliffe
  • Esteban Kolsky
  • Evangelos Simoudis
  • James Governor
  • Jason Corsello
  • Jason M. Lemkin
  • Louis Columbus
  • Michael Krigsman
  • Naomi Bloom
  • Paul Greenberg
  • Phil Fersht
  • R "Ray" Wang
  • Raju Vegesna
  • Ross Mayfield
  • Sameer Patel
  • Sandy Kemsley
  • Susan Scrupski
  • Thomas Otter
  • Tom Raftery
  • Vijay Vijayasankar
  • Vinnie Mirchandani
  • Zoli Erdos