Revolutionary shared services provider Southwest One is on its way to saving around £200 million over 10 years through a Strategic Procurement Service for Somerset County Council, Taunton Deane Borough Council and Avon and Somerset Police.
Find out in this video how the innovative ITelligence tool from Mercato is radically saving time spent on ICT procurement administration, empowering buyers to make more informed buying decisions and releasing significant cost savings.
In this interview, Antony Walker, Chief Executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group provides top tips on addressing the challenges of engaging citizens, tackling hard-to-reach areas and encouraging investment locally.
This video looks at the benefits of the e50 Learning Zone - an online platform that provides teaching tools on how technology can be applied to streamline and improve business processes.
In this interview, Socitm Futures Chair and Leeds City Council CIO, Dylan Roberts discusses how to prepare for the PSN now and shares his vision for a regionalised approach to enable councils to cherry-pick applications that best suit their needs.
Find out in this video how Leicester City Council is dramatically increasing staff productivity, reducing cost and improving service delivery with an electronic document management system from Open Text.
Find out – in this final part of the series – how to achieve maximum operational efficiencies by using innovative technology to restructure and improve your processes.
Find out in this video what the public sector can learn from BT’s experience of successfully improving staff efficiency with innovative technology and reducing headcount without recourse to compulsory redundancies.
In this video, Chris Ainslie, Managing Director for Local Government at BT discusses how councils can plan their efficiency programmes and use IT to enable operational improvements.
In this video, Christine Sheldon, Web and IT Programe Manager for Exeter City Council discusses the benefits of the EDRMS and how the council ensured its successful implementation across 17 departments.
In this video, experts at Intellect provide practical tips on accelerating the use of low-carbon technology in your organisation and look at the exciting technological advances becoming available including intelligent transport and the G-Cloud.
This video looks at how InTechnology is providing organisations with flexible and affordable IT solutions – including data management and IP telephony – which boost productivity and save money.
In this essential interview, Jos shares his vision for the critical role of IT in improving council services and provides insightful ways to lower the cost of your IT projects.
In this video, Gillian Wheeldon, Head of eBusiness for the London Borough of Hackney discusses how the council is set to save a massive £3.5 million and transform information access by swapping paper files for an electronic document and records management system from Open Text.
As United Nations Agency ITU-T Liaison Officer to OECD and EC, Catalina McGregor discusses the impact of incoming Green IT and climate change policies and provides early information on a 20% carbon reduction target currently being written for the ICT sector.
In this interview, UK Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox provides a practical action plan for councils to get their communities online and enable citizens to benefit from greater education and employment opportunities and more efficient transactions.
In this interview David Smith, Deputy Commissioner for the ICO and Paul Walker, Product Specialist for Informatica discuss how automated solutions can dramatically reduce the risk of data breaches by ensuring sensitive information is properly stored and automatically removed when it should be.
In this interview, Tim Hearn, Director for Public Sector at Juniper Networks outlines the scale of the challenge and demonstrates how partnerships, shared services and the simplification of ICT infrastructure are all key to improving service efficiency.
This video looks at how Lincolnshire County Council has greatly benefited from being a member of the Learning Pool community through collaborating with other local authorities and adapting low cost, high impact learning solutions without reinventing the wheel.
This video explores how Linux IT has helped councils save hundreds of thousands of pounds with Open Source and enabled the Health Protection Agency to save money and improve its IT efficiency.
In this interview, Helen Williams, Socitm Insight Associate rounds up the findings of Socitm’s recent ‘Twitter Gritters’ report on how councils used internet sites to inform citizens about service disruptions during the bad weather conditions this year.
This video looks at the massive impact of mobile working in North Lincolnshire and how a new convertible laptop from Panasonic – the CF-C1 – is set to make the community worker the most efficient yet.
Camden Council is driving efficiencies and cost savings since adopting Open Source software from Red Hat. Open Source has freed the council from expensive software licenses and enabled them to test IT projects at minimal cost before rolling out to the rest of the organisation.
With constrained IT spending in the economic downturn but demand on services greater than ever, councils cannot afford to risk the huge financial penalties associated with data loss and internet attacks.
Arun District Council, North Tyneside Council and Wealden District Council have significantly reduced the time taken to process benefits applications with an intelligent electronic application form.
At the recent Cabinet Office's Tower 09 Conference, Minister for Digital Engagement Tom Watson highlighted the importance of embracing digital technology in order to keep delivering the best public services. In this interview, Richard Steel, President of Socitm, shares his vision for a digital future and advises on how effective collaboration between Councils and the private sector will ensure digital engagement within Communities.
Rose Crozier, Vice President of Socitm discusses how Socitm is challenging perceptions of the ICT profession as a technical discipline and promoting it as a supporter of innovation and business goals.
Socitm’s Managing Director Adrian Hancock discusses his vision for the society and how ICT and related professionals can benefit from Socitm’s range of professional development schemes and networking opportunities.
With IT a critical focus area for efficiency savings, councils can save significant amounts of money by more effectively tracking and managing their IT estates using a Configuration Management Database.
This video explores the growing acceptance of automated services by the public and how Leeds City Council, Tandridge District Council and London Borough of Ealing are using self service to realise substantial cost benefits and customer service improvements.
Watch this film to find out how compelling new video-based services are improving the participation of older citizens in the city of Almere, Netherlands and see what you can learn from their approach.
Find out in this video how Basildon Borough Council has reduced office leasing costs by £2 million through a transformational flexible working programme supported by desktop virtualisation.
An innovative data storage solution is transforming workforce efficiency, ensuring business resilience and enabling secure sharing of information across multi-disciplinary teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Find out in this video how Gwynedd Council has reduced power consumption and carbon footprint and improved security by upgrading to one of the most energy efficient data centres in the UK, designed and built by Comms Room Services.
Find out in this video how Nottinghamshire County Council and the local PCT, is transforming health and social care planning with an innovative business intelligence tool based on critical demographic information.
In this interview, David Parsons, Chair of the LGA Improvement Board provides best practice examples of how to use the latest technology to transform council services and raise productivity, for example satellites that make bin men more efficient.
This video looks at how the Academies Enterprise Trust is using a hosted solution from SDM Systems to enable each of its Academies to save £7000 a year by freeing up costly storage space, eliminating administrative burden and improving ease of access to files.
This video looks at how Kent County Council is using conferencing to eliminate unnecessary travel to and from meetings, improve staff efficiency and reduce carbon footprint.
Find out in this video how Citrix has helped Hampshire County Council save over £2 million a year with virtual desktops and Basildon District Council to save just under £2 million on office leasing costs by virtualising applications to enable greater flexible working.
This video explores how Wakefield City Council has transformed customer service delivery with the MultiVue Identification Server from VisionWare. The customer relations management software has improved the accuracy of customer identification, reduced call times and increased customer satisfaction.
This video looks at how a Carbon Zero Scheme from Toshiba and CO2 Balance helps organisations to reduce the environmental impact of their printing products by enabling a carbon reduction project in Kenya.
This video looks at how Hampshire County Council has worked with Juniper Networks to implement a secure remote access solution called Hantsnet Passport. The passport system has reduced the need for travel and substantially saved on office space by enabling staff to work from home and multiple office locations.
In this interview, Tristan Wilkinson, Director for Public Sector at Intel discusses how increasing digital participation can improve efficiency and reduce costs.
This short video looks at how Learning Pool, the UK’s the largest public sector learning community, can help organisations boost efficiency and build capacity with innovative and cost-effective e-learning.
In this interview Adrian Butcher, Director for Value Engineering at Open Text, advises councils on the areas where they can drive most benefit from electronic processes and how to realise short-term savings, for example by supporting greater flexible working.
In this interview, Andrew Hall from OKI Printing Solutions advises on the low and no cost changes to printing practices that can save councils cost and energy. He also advises on the impact of replacing expensive, outsourced printing with printing in-house.
Hounslow Council has achieved a vast improvement in efficiency and public services since undertaking a transformational refurbishment of their data centre.
With local government IT spend hitting record levels, Phil Andrews, UK Director for Red Hat discusses how Open Source software can contain the cost of IT projects by around 85%.
To protect staff from an increasing volume of unwanted spam and malicious emails, Imperial College London has successfully introduced a powerful email security solution and achieved unprecedented control over unsolicited email content.
Birmingham City Council is delivering the largest and most ambitious Business Transformation Programme of its kind and is set to achieve over £1 billion cashable savings within 10 years.
Martin Ferguson, Head of Policy for Socitm explores how Socitm is strengthening its policy position on a range of important issues, from the current financial pressures to climate change and Digital Britain.
Mark Brett, Head of Information Assurance for Socitm explains why information assurance is imperative if the public sector is to realise the benefits of sharing information electronically.
