[LINK] Australian Government to rationalize functions with shared services

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings form the Australian Computer Society Canberra meeting, where
Susan Monkley, Group Manager, Technology Solutions Group, Department of
Education talked on "Merging IT in government (and de-merging)".

At the end of the talk Susan mentioned that the newly demerged
Departments of Education and Employment will have a shared services
centre to deliver services to both (not just ICT services). The ACT
Government already has Shared Services for ICT, Human Resources and
Finance as does the South Australian Government. However, as Susan
pointed out when I asked about it, the temptation to expand this to
agencies which have very different tasks should be avoided.

More at:
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2014/02/restructuring-australian-government.html


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