Vision and skill drive digital transformation

From digital leadership to cloud cover, there’s a lot that government can learn from the digital practices of other sectors, writes Lourens Swanepoel.

21 June, 2018

‘Building blocks’ of digital transformation ignored

No longer simply the tools used by developers for internal systems, APIs can push digital government programs to new levels, writes Dean Lacheca.

28 May, 2018

Governments should adopt hybrid cloud strategies

Inadequate funding and skill means governments will struggle to provide private cloud that meets user expectations or matches the innovation of public cloud providers, an analyst says.

4 May, 2018

Governments aren’t businesses – but should act more like them, says Gartner

Government agencies will always have different priorities than commercial businesses, but they can learn a lot from them. So says Rick Howard, government research agenda manager with leading IT analyst group Gartner. He was speaking at the firm’s Data and Analytics Summit, held in Sydney on 26-27 February. “Public trust in institutions is at an […]

26 February, 2018

Scaling digital government – up, across and out

Government agencies are looking to become leaner and more efficient. But sometimes bigger can be better. Scaling government services delivery makes sense if government collaborates and digital is used effectively. The social and economic benefits to society of government’s investment in digital solutions increases significantly when delivered at scale. To do this effectively means scaling […]

20 February, 2018

Governments to increase spending on cloud, cybersecurity and analytics

Gartner’s Rick Howard Leading IT analyst group Gartner predicts that cloud computing, cybersecurity and data analytics will be the top technology spending priorities in the public sector CIOs in 2018. And data centre infrastructure will be the most commonly targeted technology for cost savings. A global Gartner survey of government CIOs found that 16 percent […]

1 February, 2018

CIOs and the transition to digital government

Ongoing economic uncertainty and a slowdown in government technology investment continue to delay or limit the adoption of digital innovation and radically redesigned service models. But CIOs at all levels of government can help ease the path. Part of the problem is that the structure of government has remained largely unchanged for more than half […]

16 October, 2017

Conversational AI in government

Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are opening new government service delivery channels.

17 August, 2017

The most important tech trends driving government transformation

Living in the digital service economy.

6 July, 2016

More outsourcer mergers after HP Enterprise Services + CSC says Gartner

Amazon, Googler, VMware muscle-in.

31 May, 2016

Leading change in a complex digital world

Tips for CIOs.

14 January, 2016

Mobile apps: strategies for success

Citizen-centric mobile apps.

6 January, 2016

Buying software? Tenders mimick Tinder

Speed dating trials for industry and government.

9 June, 2015

NSW swings axe on troubled shared services

Outsourcers called in to carve-up ServiceFirst.

2 June, 2015