Tag: APS review

Slow hand clap: ‘Urgent’ 2019 digital review finally drops

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Digital transformation in the public sector is being hindered by “lingering” legacy technologies and technical debt, with agencies unable to make progress due to a funding shortfall and backward...

Apply AI to the tech capability audit

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
Albert Einstein famously said, “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” And if ever there was a need for new thinking...

Govt now scoping ‘urgent’ ICT capability audit

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
More than six months after it was announced as an “urgent” priority, a comprehensive audit into government ICT capabilities has now begun. The audit was announced as part of...

Digital disruption the APS should have seen

Posted on   |  by Simon Bush
Canberra’s mandarins must be going into Christmas wondering what just happened; major departments have disappeared (merged) and secretaries sacked with more changes to come. However, the signposts were there...

Gov’t responds to Thodey review

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has earmarked $15 million to pay for a rapid planning phase to transform the public sector as part of its response to the landmark Thodey review,...

APS shake-up outside Thodey Review

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A department secretary has contradicted Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s claim that the recent major shake-up of the public service was in-line with the Thodey review, as the government prepares...

Thodey bells the cat on the economy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO chairman and business leader David Thodey has called out Australia’s urgent need to better prepare for a volatile and uncertain future in a speech that also previewed the...