The savage budget cuts make it imperative to look at the track record of monumental failures for government IT projects. The author examines where projects are going wrong. He also looks at what ...

Facing The Fold is a collection of highly regarded journal essays about how scenario thinking uses the capacious space of the ‘fold’ to encourage thinking around alternative scenarios – to create the ...

Local authorities, bus operators, transport campaigners and unions are warning today that Britain’s local bus networks are at risk from Beeching-style cuts if the Government withdraws direct national ...

A council has spelt out what it believes will be the full cost to its local economy of the Government’s decision to stop the national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. Nottingham City ...

The Big Society is set to bring benefits to many communities across the country, but others will lose out. The losers are in the areas with limited community wealth such as volunteering. The New Local ...

With the challenge of finding ways to cut budgets by 25 per cent, a survey has revealed that public services find difficulty in analysing how taxpayers’ money is spent. There is a limited use of ...

Stephen Clark discusses how virtual school heads can more accurately monitor looked-after children. A recent freedom of information request from the Sunday Times shows that 4,852 looked-after children ...

Making Sense of Change Management examines managing and leading change in an organization. It covers key scenarios including re-structuring, cultural change and IT-based process change.

A sentiment analysis has been applied to tweets about the Wimbledon Championship to reveal a range of insights into fan and sport pundits’ opinions around the games. The same analysis technique could ...

Joe Anderson said: “I promised to build 5,000 new homes in Liverpool by 2016. We’re already building 2,500 of them. “We want everyone in Liverpool to have access to a decent home, and that’s why ...

What’s the issue? Around a million older home-owners have at least £100,000 of housing equity, yet their incomes are so small that they qualify for means-tested benefits1. If these people could draw ...

The latest cuts in local government budgets announced by the Chancellor have intensified the search for innovative ways to deal with the new situation. One way to address this is to spin-out a ...