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Enterprise IT, Featured, Features - Thursday, December 15, 2011 15:38 - 11 Comments
Breaking Victoria’s IT fail cycle: First steps to take
analysis Several weeks ago the Victorian Ombudsman handed down one of the most damning assessments of public sector IT governance in Australia’s history, noting total cost over-runs of $1.44 billion, extensive delays and a general failure to actually deliver on stated aims in 10 major IT projects carried out by the state government over the past half-decade.
Shortly after the report landed, Delimiter published an analysis of what the state should avoid doing next. Gershon-style reviews, super-chief information officers being flown in to take charge, focusing on shifting everything into IT shared services centres; analysts agreed that these sorts of quick fix solutions would just lead to more of the same problems that Victoria has already been experiencing.
With these obvious wrong turns out of the way, the focus today turns to some positive thinking. What are the steps which the Victorian State Government should be taking decisively forward at this point? Where can it look to for inspiration and a roadmap to better IT governance?
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