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Digital Services and Customer Experience

Driving service excellence in state government through digital transformation

The first two decades of the current century have seen enormous technological changes in almost every field. Digital technology continues to have a disruptive impact on businesses and the economy, and it is not an exaggeration to say that any organisation or sector that doesn’t keep up with the pace of digital transformation will be left behind. Digitisation however is not only about the use of technology. It is about being able to work seamlessly in the digital age. At a state level, the process to digitise is often more complicated because there is not an equivalent transformation agency in …
Driving service excellence in state government through digital transformation
Australia 16 Nov 2021
Whitepapers & Reports
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General

Modernising & Maturing Australian Corporate Shared Services

The agency itself was created in 2012 through a merger of other organisations, but by 2019, the founding CEO had resigned and things started to feel stale. “Often with a new CEO comes a bit of change,” and one of the first things that the new CEO implemented “was the first-ever employment engagement survey.” This also led to a new 10-year strategy, which was “endorsed by the board in March 2020.” Separate from that, other changes happened in the sector and across government at around the same time, and just before COVID-19 became the focus of everyone’s attention, it was …
Modernising & Maturing Australian Corporate Shared Services
Australia 15 Nov 2021
Industry Trends
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Scaling, Digitising & Maturing NZ Public Sector Shared Services

The goal of any business, particularly a large-scale operation, is to be as efficient as possible, delivering the best possible services whilst expending the least number of resources, thereby maximising profit. For large institutions with long histories, changing behaviours and becoming more efficient is often particularly difficult. But not impossible. However, like every organisation of significant size, there are constant roadblocks. The finance team, in particular, they are constantly involved in “firefighting, managing our backlogs, solving problems, and coaching our people to be more efficient, though there’s never enough time to actually develop our people.” The goal of course is …
Scaling, Digitising & Maturing NZ Public Sector Shared Services
New Zealand 15 Nov 2021
Industry Trends
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Enhancing Interoperability and Management Operations through ICT

Enhancing Interoperability and Management Operations through ICT
Enhancing Interoperability and Management Operations through ICT
Australia 11 Nov 2021
Industry Trends
Public
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Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on NZ Public Sector Procurement

In procurement circles, people often “use the terms SRM and contract management interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.” Contract management is all about delivering the services or goods outlined in the contract. In many cases, this is procurement 101. SRM however is “about generating new value that goes beyond what’s written in a contract.” It is about performance and relationship management and “if we focus on that, then we will see value generated through continuous improvement and innovation over time.” This is particularly relevant now because, after events like “earthquakes, floods, security threats, and COVID-19, there is a …
Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on NZ Public Sector Procurement
New Zealand 11 Nov 2021
Industry Trends
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Data, Analytics and AI

The Automation Change Management Puzzle

Automation, in the many forms it comes in – machine learning, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence – is on track to make a bigger impact on business and society than any previous technology. With the ability to make connections, see relationships and react faster and more efficiently we’re on the cusp of something huge. Ultimately automation at any level isn’t a technological journey – technology is easy, you just turn it on – automation is a psychological journey, one that goes hand in hand with a change management journey, with the brutal truth being that it doesn’t matter how much …
The Automation Change Management Puzzle
Australia 9 Nov 2021
Whitepapers & Reports
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Digital Services and Customer Experience

Designing and embedding a seamless and innovative end-to-end service

At the recent Service Design and Delivery event, we heard from the Department of Health as they dive into how to connect the real world experience to policy making. In this article we explore: In the Department of Health, one example of the way policy has always been traditionally developed is in the field of mental health. Unlike other conditions, where it is usually quite clear if there is an issue – like a broken bone for instance – mental health conditions “are complex and they can be very different from person to person.” When developing policy, it is therefore …
Designing and embedding a seamless and innovative end-to-end service
Australia 5 Nov 2021
Industry Trends
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Cyber Security and Risk Management

State of Identity in a Post-Covid World

Obviously the pandemic has been and continues to be “a period of profound geopolitical, technological and societal change.” As part of that though, it has also been a “truly a fantastic opportunity to build more digitally enabled services, but these solutions and approaches must come hand in glove with ensuring that innovation remains secure-by-design, with cyber security practices and methodologies embedded into the process.” More than that, cyber security has become “an organisational imperative” because there’s been a surge in internet traffic and activity which has led to criminals “seeking to strategically disrupt critical infrastructure and global supply chains to …
State of Identity in a Post-Covid World
Australia 5 Nov 2021
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