Predictions 2015: Public Sector SITS

In the UK public sector, though the General Election will bring uncertainty and interrupt momentum in the early part of 2015, most organisations – whether Whitehall or in the broader public sector – are aware that more radical transformation is required if they are to continue delivering public services while constraining spending. As a result, during 2015, we will see an ‘invest to save’ ICT mentality penetrating more and more public sector organisations. However, this will all be happening in the context of an increasingly complex supplier and technology landscape, exacerbated by the fast introduction of new digital technologies. So, the Government (whoever is in power) will spend 2015 revisiting some of the assumptions put in place over the past few years, particularly in terms of commercial and procurement models.

TechMarketView’s 2015 theme ‘Joining the Dots’ will be extremely relevant in the public sector in 2015. It will be a year defined by public sector organisations trying to seek out the best approaches to enable increased collaboration – ‘joining the dots’ - between public sector organisations, with external organisations (including suppliers and the third sector), and with citizens. Finding ways to enable the sharing of data, as well as opening up Government data, to allow this ‘joining up’ to occur, will be a particular feature of the year. In this research note we outline what we think will happen during the next twelve months.

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