Government urged to improve cost data to help boost public service productivity
Published on:This report shows how better cost information can help improve government productivity and key service delivery.
This report shows how better cost information can help improve government productivity and key service delivery.
This report examines how well placed government is to seize the opportunity offered by data analytics technologies to tackle fraud and error.
Data analytics are a vital tool to tackle fraud and error, but savings so far have been modest compared to the amount potentially achievable.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, championed effective innovation as a way to tackle the ongoing challenge of rising demand for stretched public services.
Government can save significant sums of time and money by improving how it engages with technology suppliers.
Responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to the NAO in 2023.
Our Digital Insights team are experts on digital transformation and technology programmes, with experience in both the public and private sectors.
This report assesses how government is trying to address the underlying issues that make digital transformation so difficult to achieve.
This report assesses how government is trying to address the underlying issues that make digital transformation so difficult to achieve.
This report assesses whether the BBC is on track to deliver value to its users from its digital transformation.
This report assesses whether the BBC is on track to deliver value to its users from its digital transformation.
This report examines whether Defra has a full understanding of its legacy challenges, including cyber security risks, and if its plans to address the problem are realistic, achievable and aligned to future needs.
This report examines whether Defra has a full understanding of its legacy challenges, including cyber security risks, and if plans to address the problem are realistic, achievable and aligned to future needs.
This report examines the MoD’s progress implementing digital transformation.
This report examines the MoD’s progress implementing digital transformation.
It’s revealing to look at the timeline of digital transformation initiatives over the last 25 years. Government’s ambition for ‘world class’ services using joined-up systems and data goes back to the mid 1990s, from where we can trace a steady stream of policies and initiatives right through to last autumn’s National Data Strategy. Most of […]
This report sets out the lessons for government and departments to learn from the experience of implementing digital change.
This report sets out the lessons for government and departments to learn from the experience of implementing digital change.
The shielding programme was a swift government wide response to identify and protect clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people against COVID-19. Our recent report on Protecting and supporting the clinically extremely vulnerable during lockdown, shows how government quickly recognised the need to provide food, medicines and basic care to those CEV people shielding. This had to […]
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