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Selling public services 02:23am on 10 Jul 2008 I do tend to agree with with (2) and the findings of the MORI poll.

However, whilst I don't disagree that public organisations should manage their own affairs, how would e.g. a council make itself sufficiently expert in managing IT systems? It seems obvious that their only viable option would be to outsource to 'experts' in the private sector if they don't feel comfortable with e.g. IT as a 'core competency'.

Perhaps the issue is one of quality of personnel? Is it a naive view to suggest that paying the 'best' private sector people to come and work in the public sector to run such competencies would fix things? Althought it might make them more accountable, I don't know whether I'd be really reassured that the 'snouts in the trough' attitude suggested by (1) would really go away.

Bigger-picture, I think, with ref to IT, that such 'integration' projects are verging on impossible to successfully manage - regardless of sector. Hard to get people to agree what they want and then see it through over timescales that can run into many years...

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