Obelisk

The Government's digital chief Mike Bracken has told Computer Weekly that he'd like to move away from the so-called "tower model" of procuring new systems. This is where IT requirements are broken down into small components, each bought separately from specialist suppliers, and then integrated, either by an in-house team or a third-party supplier.

Bracken says the better solution is guaranteed interoperability between the components, reducing the need for new integration when you change one bit of computer infrastructure.

This will interest the BBC's money-minder Anne Bulford, presiding over the labour-intensive Project Aurora, specifying all future BBC IT requirements under, yes, a "tower model"....