Why IT failure comes easy to government

Dave Bailey
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Is an unholy alliance between vendors and officials preventing a much-needed change to the way public sector IT contracts are awarded?

Dave Bailey I recently went to the Royal Academy of Engineering in London to watch a roundtable discussion. It was at the launch of a joint study with the BCS and the Institution of Engineering a...

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