Denise McDonagh, the former director of the UK government’s G-Cloud, has called on departments to act with confidence and take more risks in order to drive public savings.

“We do have some challenges, but I believe that within government and the public sector we have the ability to think for ourselves, take control, and do things differently. We just need to have the confidence in ourselves, and need to be able to take a risk,” she said.

McDonagh described how risks need to be taken in order to help suppliers, adding that the G-Clouds move under the control of the Government’s Digital Services, would help to increase support and funding for change.

“Suppliers took a risk to come onto this framework, now we need to think about the risks we are prepared to take in order to deliver not only the savings, but the much improved service to the customer.”

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