Government IT Savings Success – Time to Open the Piggy Bank…Carefully
Australia's Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner recently heralded the Gershon Review and resultant reforms by Federal Government as a success. A review into the efficiency and effectiveness of IT, Gershon...
View ArticleDoes The Australian Public Service (APS) Need a modern-day Great Library?
According to the Canberra Times Newspaper, 40 percent of Government Leaders in Senior Executive Service (SES) and 30 percent of Executive Level (EL) positions will be eligible to retire during the next...
View ArticleDisasters by Damage Control or Risk Management?
Watching the news grabs and reading about the Haiti disaster highlights to me the vast, tragic human cost of such disasters and leaves me asking the question what could have been done better? The...
View ArticleSign this contract here: its all free…Or is it?
In previous years, Federal Government agencies have been given riding instructions to get the cheapest, "all you can eat" licensing bundles that provide economies of scale and cheap costs per unit. The...
View ArticleThe Battle of Britain: Thought Leadership in Information Management
In the London Blitz of 1940, Great Britain was staring down defeat and an imminent German invasion. With cities, industry and dockyards experiencing nightly destruction, Great Britain needed to...
View ArticleGovernment Caretaker Periods – A MasterChef’s Information Feast
With the recent change of Australian Prime Minister from Kevin Rudd to Julia Gillard and the immediacy of an election, Federal Government agencies will most likely go into what is a "Care-Taker...
View ArticleElection Analysis: Moving Forward or Back to the Future?
The Australian Federal Government election has delivered an uncertain result that was always certain to eventuate. By taking an active analytics approach, either party could have changed the election...
View ArticleReeled-In on Father’s Day with Insightful Analytics
For young fathers such as myself, Father's Day has a lustre and excitement which is akin to Christmas, Easter and birthdays as a child. My third Father's Day it is still a new event to share with my...
View ArticleA Home with a View using Integrated Data
With housing affordability increasingly out of reach for Australian "working families", I am surprised a strategy and solution has not been devised to use information to give people a home with a...
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