“No one ever got fired for hiring IBM – until I took over”

Francis Maude: “No one ever got fired for hiring IBM – until I took over”

Former Cabinet Office minister, Lord Francis Maude explains how he led a major transformation of government procurement and saved £50bn in five years.

It is just after the general election of 2010, and some very senior civil servants are sitting around a table in the office of the new Cabinet Office (CO) minister Lord Francis Maude.

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Francis Maude: “No one ever got fired for hiring IBM – until I took over”

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