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£190,000 job will lead digital, data and technology policy across Whitehall, in charge of the 200-strong Central Digital and Data Office.

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The government is set to launch a new training college for civil servants and senior council officers, to improve skills and knowledge that help with the ‘levelling up’ agenda.  

The paper said: “This new training infrastructure will also be made available to local government executives, in particular local authority chief executives and senior officers.

“This will help to build local leadership capability across the UK, supporting accompanying efforts to empower local leaders.

“It will also increase collaboration between central and local government and across local government.”

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Having seen its turnover decline during FY20, KPMG UK experienced a welcomed reversal of fortunes during the last financial year. Firm-wide revenue for the twelve months ending 30th September increased by 6% yoy to £2.35bn.

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Cognizant rounded off FY21 with a strong final quarter. Top line growth of 14.5% at constant currency for the three months ended 31st December lifted full year revenue by 10% yoy to $18.5bn. The 2021 adjusted operating margin improved by 100 bps to 15.4%.

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CGI’s financial results need a bit of scrutiny to get to really understand the picture, at least from a UK perspective. The global headline paints a very strong picture: revenue up 2.4% to CAN$3.09b, or up 6.8% in constant currency, and adjusted EBIT of $521.5m, up 5.2% year-on-year, representing an EBIT margin of 16.9% (up 50bps).

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We would like to congratulate our members at Coues Consulting! 

The whole company are really proud of the collective achievement. 

The ranking is based on the number of recommendations from corporates & peers, so they are grateful to get this recognition from the industry.

Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an “AI supercomputer” — a high-speed computer designed specifically to train machine learning systems. The company says its new AI Research SuperCluster, or RSC, is already among the fastest machines of its type and, when complete in mid-2022, will be the world’s fastest.

Read the full article here on TheVerge.com

Hewlett Packard (HP) has won a multibillion-dollar fraud case over its acquisition of a British software company.

Cambridge-based Autonomy was sold to the US tech giant for $11bn in 2011.

HP sued its founder and former chief financial officer, claiming they "artificially inflated Autonomy's reported revenues, revenue growth and gross margins".

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IBM has released its Q4 financial results, which show for the first time what the company looks like following the separation of the Kyndryl business.

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Indian technology vendor Mphasis has released third quarter results reflecting continued strong revenue growth and improving profits.

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