Cutting apps by numbers doesn’t compute

Managing the bloated application portfolio.

19 January, 2015

Sourcing options for shared services

Public private partnerships: their costs and benefits.

14 January, 2015

Governments risk long-term technological deficiency

A bimodal approach to information technology in government is growing.

12 January, 2015

Aussie Feds cloud challenge to Microsoft Office, Exchange

Desktop and Mail As-a-Service.

29 September, 2014

Plain English reboot for government cyber security outreach

Techno jibber jabber made redundant

26 August, 2014

Australian security software spend beats global trend

Gartner cautions about democratisation of security threats as IBM claws its way back into the top three vendors.

11 June, 2014

Technology is the comfort zone, leadership is the battle zone

Brisbane’s first Chief Digital Officer has issued a call to action on digital leadership.

10 June, 2014

Victorian councils struggle to measure impact of shared services

A new report from the Victorian Auditor-General’s office that evaluates the use of shared services by councils has found that they have trouble measuring its impact due to a lack of baseline data.

30 May, 2014

Gartner snaps up last Australian Government Chief Information Officer Glenn Archer

Key former federal technocrat snares plum public sector analyst role.

29 April, 2014

Gartner examines post-election IT transitions

By John Kost* A change in the political leadership of government is often a time of high anxiety for public servants. Although it is unlikely that they will lose their jobs, it is still a time when the relationships and goodwill built up with the previous government may suddenly evaporate. As Australia heads towards a […]

23 January, 2014

Governments losing sight of risk assessments

By Paul Hemsley A new report from Gartner has found that organisations have become so buried in risk and security compliance requirements that they can’t keep up with all of them, a situation that has led to managers neglecting more important in-depth risk assessments and instead just ticking boxes. The analyst firm has cautioned that […]

16 August, 2013

Microsoft gouges government on pricing

By Julian Bajkowski The federal government could soon usher in sweeping changes to the way it buys hundreds of millions of dollars of software from technology giants like Microsoft to extract much better value for money and greatly boost the flexibility and productivity of public sector computing. A landmark public submission from the Australian Government […]

15 August, 2012

Brisbane flushes i3

By Lilia Guan   Brisbane City Council has dumped i3 Asia Pacific bid to install broadband through the City’s sewerage pipes.    A Council spokesperson said no contract had been signed with the company and Council was undertaking due diligence over the project.    “The company failed to provide Council with the necessary information to […]

25 February, 2011

Leadership answer to smarter procurement

By Adam Coleman Of government projects that fail, more than 50 per cent of those failures are ensured during the procurement process and leadership need to recognise they can and must do something about the problem. That is the message from Gartner Research managing vice president and former CIO of the state of Michigan, John […]

17 November, 2006