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Commission of Inquiry
Peter Barnett
Telstra Global & Enterprise Services
National Local Government Summit 2014
The Municipal Landscape
Page 2
• Continuing to shave costs
• Continuing to build individual vendor driven systems
• Purchasing for price not strategic advantage
• Collaboration ad hoc
• Struggling to acquire, skill and maintain skilled workers
Council IT Teams
• Tighter future Public Sector funding
• Pressure on Councils to retain their identity and independence
• Large unfunded infrastructure gaps
• Increasing number of Councils with an average underlying operating deficit
• Managers struggling to find sufficient appropriate resources to deliver required services
Councils
The LIKELY OUTCOME?
COLLABORATION
• Leverage technology
• Build a contestable competitive framework as a key enabler
• Drive your own priorities and outcomes
• DO it or have it DONE to you
Page 3
The Business Challenges
• Consensus and Commitment
• Legal and Commercial framework
• Development of Service Catalogue
• Priorities
Page 4
The Technology Challenges
Maximise IT Resources
• Identify core business
• Price or strategic advantage?
• Transition from IT Doer to IT Strategy, Performance Manager
• Understand the value of technology solutions in a business context
Page 5
Collaboration
• Targeted, prioritised application development and/or procurement
• Skills specialisation and structural flexibility
• Develop solutions in collectives and seize opportunities
• Drive your own IT agenda
Embrace a Change