The Delivery Gap: Why Government Projects Really Fail and What Can be Done About It - Softcover

Simcock, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1836624859 ISBN 13: 9781836624851

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025

Synopsis

Sometimes, government has to build something big. Really big. A high-speed railway network, a fleet of nuclear submarines, an IT system big enough for the health records of every person in the country. But Britain has a woeful record of delivering projects of this scale. They are either late, over budget, deliver less than promised – or all three. Some are never completed at all. What is going wrong?

In the wake of the cancellation of HS2, Jonathan Simcock, former Major Projects Director of the Office of Government Commerce, provides answers. This eye-opening text draws on testimony from the Ministers, officials and project managers who have tried, and mostly failed, to deliver the country’s biggest projects.

To face up to its challenges – productivity, growth, national security, and the changing climate – Britain needs huge publicly funded investment. So how do we close the Delivery Gap?

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Simcock is a recognised expert in the challenges of major government project delivery. After a career in the private sector, he has spent sixteen years leading, governing, assuring and advising many of government’s largest projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1836624859
• ISBN 13: 9781836624851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176