If firms were training people in the higher-value management skills, it would not be quite so bad, but we are not.

This makes updating workforce skills particularly important. People really need to have their skills fine-tuned to have skills that are in demand and match those available overseas.

The solution is to limit public sector ambition to that which can be reliably delivered given the human beings available and rebuild the available UK skills base, including user management and information systems - because technology is rarely the problem.

The UK could face a digital winter of discontent during the run-up to the next general election.

I sense management has been put on a time line. People are looking for an event to surface value.

Led by a strong management team, Oasis has a solid franchise with a compelling value proposition, excellent customer retention and a highly scalable business model serving a large, under-penetrated and fragmented market. Oasis fulfills a need among small and medium-sized businesses for human resources-related products and services that can be difficult, complex and disproportionately expensive for these businesses to provide on their own.