The Committee on Standards in Public Life thinks it knows how to halt the seemingly endless scandals about outsourcing. Report by Colin Marrs. Illustration by John Levers

Today there is a growing need for organisations to provide seamless and transparent information sharing amongst employees; whether it is visibility of employee goals at different levels within the company to ensure alignment between the individual and the businesses objectives or reporting on financial targets. 

ID Logistics strengthens the performance of its teams in France and globally by using a SaaS-based Learning and Talent Management solution

Cornerstone provide advice on effective approaches for learning management.

Everyone loves a good spreadsheet. But if you have more than a few hundred employees, tracking performance, training, and succession with them is the stuff of nightmares. Spreadsheets and paper-based processes can’t give you deep, real-time insight into how your employees are performing or how to make them—and your company—more successful. But a talent management system can. Our clients shared their reasons for making the switch from spreadsheet to software. Which one tops your list?

The Education Funding Agency is responsible for handing out £54bn of taxpayers’ money every year, funding every state school place in the country. Winnie Agbonlahor meets its chief executive, Peter Lauener

A civil servant in our courts service says we must invest money in order to save it

During her 30-year civil service career, national statistician Jil Matheson has seen a lot of change. The UK Statistics Authority chief discusses the ever-evolving roles of data-crunchers with Suzannah Brecknell

Recovering debt from citizens and businesses is about more than just tougher enforcement. 

Since 2010, the government has acted to tackle fraud and error – but its debt recovery operations remain isolated and uncoordinated. Winnie Agbonlahor listens in at a round table debating a major change on the horizon

This 2 min 49 second video will help you to really understand what the art of the possible is and how using big data technologies can change the way the world does business.

It is all very well making cuts, but is the government confident that they are making the right cuts?  We all know you have to speculate to accumulate but is the public sector investing in the right projects?  Is it procuring effectively?

Government bodies increasingly rely on analytics to turn data into insights and optimise programmes to better serve citizens. Learn more of how SAS is helping govern the future with the power of analytics – view this short video.

Watch this 5 minute video to understand how SAS helped LA County close in on fraud rings with the SAS Fraud Framework.

A local authority finance worker says the cuts are hurting – but they’re still not prompting the big reforms required

This head teacher has pulled their school up from the bottom, but argues that education policy is now pushing it back down

For some top execs there is the misconception that Human Resources (HR) is ‘just’ another administrative function – reviews need to be carried out and training needs to be completed just to tick the box. 

The head of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government is a fan of the British civil service – but it’s being battered by some heavyweight global forces, she says, and must learn a new fighting style. Matt Ross meets her

Why insuring with SW Prestige not only gives you a unique insurance solution but also gives proceeds to charity

Once small and cohesive, today’s cities, including those in the UK, have become large and complex entities. In fact, London, despite being the smallest region in terms of area, occupying 1,600 square kilometres (sq km), less than 1% of the total area of the UK, has a population of over 8 million. This is a larger population today than all but the top four countries at the turn of the last century. So, with this being the case, how can governments maintain meaningful engagement with citizens, businesses, employees and other agencies?

Once, civil servants hacked away at unfashionable railways in favour of cars and aeroplanes – but now trains are once again seen as transports of the future. Joshua Chambers meets High Speed 2 chief executive Alison Munro

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is a full-blown and unapologetic regulator in an era of deregulation. Winnie Agbonlahor hears its chief executive, Dr Ian Hudson, explain the value of its work

Garden cities have long been a fertile idea in public policy. First planned over a century ago, they flowered in Hertfordshire in the ‘20s – and now this perennial concept is set to bear fruit once again. Colin Marrs reports

In today’s chaotic business world, organisations are continually trying to determine what they need to measure in order to effectively manage their business. There can be a misconception that Human Resources (HR) is ‘just’ another administrative function of a business that needs to be done and doesn’t warrant its own metrics  – training needs to be completed and reviews carried out to tick a box.