*NEW RESEARCH*: General Election 2015 & SITS

With only seven weeks to go until the big day—General Election 2015 on 7th May—TechMarketView has been looking at how the outcome of the General Election could impact Software and IT Services (SITS) suppliers to the UK public sector market. It is our view that there are three key areas that SITS suppliers should be considering: the main party pledges; central strategies, policies and actions of the Cabinet Office; and individual departmental policies. We will be picking up the latter two in the next few weeks.

In this PublicSectorViews report (General Election 2015 Main Party Pledges: Supplier Impact), the team has looked at the pledges from the main political parties: Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats (including any revelations in today’s Pre Election Budget – see Pre Election Budget 2015: technology impacting policy). The report divides the public sector into five areas: Whitehall (Central Government & Defence); Health & Social Care; Justice & Police; Local Government; and Education. Our General Election Infographics - like the one pictured - for each public sector area outline the pledges made by each of the political parties that we think have the potential to most greatly impact the public sector SITS market, either providing an opportunity or a threat. For each of the pledges, we have identified the key 2015 Public Sector ‘Sector Shaping Trend’ (see Research Agenda 2015) to which the pledge relates most closely i.e. securing mobile, smart everything, promoting cyber security, transforming for digital, collaboration nation, evolving commercial models, or getting value from data. In addition, in some cases, the policy is simply linked to cutting cost (labelled ‘Austerity’), organisational change/new organisational requirement, or a potential system change.

In our analysis, we have considered the similarities and differences between the different party pledges. Where there is common consensus, and therefore a greater likelihood that we will see the change specified, we have also highlighted the likely impact on the SITS market. PublicSectorViews subscribers can download the report today. If you are not yet a subscriber, please vote for becoming one (!) and contact Deb Seth.

Posted by Georgina O'Toole at '17:21' - Tagged: publicsector   policy   government