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Infographic: Benefits of Business Intelligence Solutions
Dec 7, 2017
Governments and public-facing organizations around the world generate and capture enormous amounts of data. Increasingly, they are looking to technology as the way to transform every process, from connecting data and generating reports to visualizing information and forecasting future trends....
Buying Procurement Technology? Listen to this CPO’s Advice
Dec 6, 2017
Last week we re-launched our podcasting channel with a new series called Public Procurement Leaders. In each episode, Chairman and CEO of Public Spend Forum Raj Sharma sits down with leaders from the public and private sector to get their perspectives and insights.Given our recent work around...
‘Reinventing Government,’ 25 Years Later
Dec 6, 2017
In 1993, the government began shifting its focus to performance, but the question remains: Has the procurement system improved?
We are coming up next year on the 25th anniversary of the country’s first and perhaps only governmentwide management reform program organized around a coherent theme:...
Unbalanced Government Spending for IoT
Dec 5, 2017
Unfortunately for smaller innovative vendors and the civilian sector of the federal government, much of the IoT spending is consolidated within the Department of Defense and among a few large vendors. FCW examines how civilian agencies can increase their participation in this innovation wave and...
It Is Time for Public Sector Attitudes Towards Cyber Insurance To Change
Dec 1, 2017
CPO (chief privacy officer) magazine – providing data privacy, protection and cyber security news and insights – highlights the growing perils of hackers and malicious attacks on public sector organisations. “The last decade has seen attacks driven by ideology, greed and in some cases simple...
Unique Series of Short Videos on Successful Innovation Procurement Implementations from eafip
Dec 1, 2017
The eafip initiative has created a series of short videos showcasing successful European innovation procurement implementations. They feature individuals, including both public procurers and suppliers, talking about how they successfully developed and put into practice innovation procurement...
Public Sector Organisations in Changing Approach to Delivering Services Online
Dec 1, 2017
GOSS, web and digital platform company, has produced its third Public Sector Digital Self-Service Survey covering 2017-18. It is one of the UK’s largest surveys of its kind. The 200-plus individuals (of CEOs, IT managers, procurers and purchasers) from 179 Public Sector organisations contributing...
Clean Contracting Manifesto Launched by Transparency International
Dec 1, 2017
Transparency International, together with CoST (the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative), Open Contracting Partnership (OCP), Hivos and Article19, have launched the Clean Contracting Manifesto. “The whole lifecycle of public procurement must be implemented to the highest possible...
Another New Face of Government IT Contractors
Dec 1, 2017
As some blog readers may know, I am quite active on Facebook and have been so for a number of years. However, I never joined LinkedIn, assuming it was just for people looking for jobs (which I’m not).
But after getting a number of requests to “connect” and seeing that the site also had...
Introducing The Public Procurement Leader Podcast
Dec 1, 2017
At Public Spend Forum, we believe our community is our biggest asset. People are the engines of change and progress within the public sector and inside the suppliers that support them. That’s why we’ve decided to launch The Public Procurement Leader, a new podcast hosted by our Chairman and CEO...
Unlocking Public Value – Will New Report Change Anything?
Nov 30, 2017
What should be an important report for government was issued this month in the UK. We say “should be” because the initial reaction to it was muted, to say the least – but more on that later.
The report (which we mentioned here briefly) comes from Sir Michael Barber, a distinguished academic,...
Cyber DFARS Compliance and Agency Evaluations (NIST SP 800-171)
Nov 28, 2017
December 31, 2017 marks the deadline for compliance with DFARS 252.204-7012, Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting (“Cyber DFARS”).[1] The Cyber DFARS principally requires defense contractors to provide “adequate security” on all “covered contractor...
