Police IT and Fujitsu
Re-thinking the traditional
By using its workforce and its technology in completely new ways, Fujitsu believes that a transformed police service can be created, improving citizen confidence and saving money at the same time.
Fujitsu isn’t like other IT businesses. We believe in straight talking and making promises we can keep. It’s to do with our Japanese ownership and European focus.
We’re in it for the long haul, and we want relationships with our customers, not just sales. We’re able to work to your timescales because we don’t have the short-term commercial pressures that some other IT businesses have to cope with.
Our investment in a new Police focus is one example of this - we’re long-term thinkers who make commitments up-front. Our commercial approach is also unusual. We write contracts intelligently, focusing on business benefits for you and allowing for the inevitable changes as time goes on.
Insights & Opinions
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Share and share alike
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Motivated by a need to drive efficiencies and reduce costs, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire County Councils in the UK have taken the lead when it comes to reaping the rewards of shared services.
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Three fallacies
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Misheld beliefs about shared services in the public sector are often given as reasons for holding back on shared service adoption. It’s our opinion that not only are these beliefs fallacies, but that shared services actually enable the very things that people believe they inhibit.
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Satisfaction Centre - not cost centre
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As corporate shared services initiatives become operational across UK central and local government, customers are starting to raise questions about ‘lowest common denominator’ services that reduce performance. It’s our opinion that these are
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Collaboration and Pragmatism:
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The UK Government’s cloud computing initiative will reduce cost and boost efficiency, but the public sector and its service partners must work hand-in-hand for it to succeed
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Buying, selling or sitting it out
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As major corporate shared services programmes become operational across UK central and local government, clear divisions will appear in the market.It’s our opinion that there will be two such divisions; one between buyers and sellers and the other between them and the smaller organisations left adrift after the first wave of implementations.
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Making Mobile Solutions
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David Rosewell and Craig Merrick of Fujitsu argue that public sector organisations that equip their workforces with powerful mobile solutions can reap multiple benefits, in particular: maintaining front-line services in the face of budget cuts, boosting efficiency, and cutting costs. However, doing this requires careful planning and business change management.
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