FOOL BRITANNIA?

摘要

UK industry is failing to use IT to achieve competitive advantage and deliver business success. The sort of innovation in the UK software and services sector that could deliver those benefits is being stilled because UK businesses are stuck in a rut, implementing standardised packages from overseas suppliers. And the UK economy as a whole is suffering as a consequence. That, at least, is the view of Michael Gough, chief executive of the National Computing Centre. The NCC is the UK's largest membership organisation for the IT end-user community, representing 80% of IT spend in the UK with an even mix of private and public sector members. The mission Gough has laid out for the NCC in 2004 is to get UK organisations using IT more effectively and to encourage them to use UK software and services so that the country's IT industry can start to compete globally and produce market-leading products.