In this final post on the key topics outlined in the last National Audit Office Keynote, we will talk about our views on how organisations can reduce fraud and error by looking to adopt new technologies in an Agile way.

Most of us, without much thought, can name at least one contract that has made the headlines for the wrong reasons. Often these are contracts for infrastructure where there is scale and complexity; transport, health, defence, information and communication technology and digital goods and services.

The recent media coverage of schools and maintenance services provided by private providers shows how the oversimplification of the issues around PFI and PFI contracts continues to lead to misunderstanding. Something that has plagued the industry for a number of years. We thought it would be useful to pick five of the key questions that have come out of these conversations and cut through the jargon to look behind the headlines.

In this blog series we are exploring the five key areas of ‘financial opportunity’ laid out in the January keynote to Parliament from the Comptroller and Auditor General of the UK National Audit Office (NAO), Gareth Davies (the full transcript can be seen here.)