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Public Sector Research - October 2022

Welcome to the October 2022 edition of PSN RESEARCH. We have a bumper set of research papers for you!

Policies and Procedures Centre

Policies and procedures convey an organisation's principles as well as expectations for staff performance and behaviour. They establish how problems with human resource management will be handled. Workplace policies frequently reaffirm and make clear normal operating practices. By clearly defining acceptable and undesirable behaviour in the workplace and outlining the consequences of breaking those policies, well-written policies assist employers in managing personnel more successfully. #policies, #cybersecurity, #corporateservices, #CIO, #datamanagement, #riskmanagement, #diversity, #governance, #finance, #procurement, #HR, #compliance

How Technology is Helping to Reimagine Public Health

Public health is integral to protecting and improving the safety and health of communities through outreach, policy-making, research, health programs and interventions. It relies on an underlying infrastructure that provides communities and nations with the capacity to prevent disease, promote population health and prepare for and respond to health threats. Public Sector Network has partnered with Salesforce to release a whitepaper entitled “How Technology is Helping to Reimagine Public Health” the whitepaper focuses on the challenges in modernizing public health and highlights several case studies that help to reimagine public health solutions.

Cloud Security: A Guide for Government Decision-makers

Cloud is helping to modernize government services and transform citizen interactions. But cloud security hasn’t kept up with the pace of cloud adoption. Ensuring a secure, compliant environment in the cloud is critical— particularly for public-sector organizations that collect, store and manage highly sensitive data on behalf of their citizens. Public Sector Network has partnered with Check Point, to launch the "Cloud Security: A Guide for Government Decision-makers" whitepaper. The whitepaper tackles these key issues and outlines four keys to a successful cloud journey IT teams can utilize to help manage and maintain security across multi-vendor as well as private, …

Wayne Vore, Chief Technology Officer at Texas Health and Human Services, Q&A - Government Innovation Texas  

Meet Wayne Vore - a 10-year State of Texas veteran of three agencies. He has a wide variety of experience – from application development to product marketing -- in his 25+ years of IT experience including as a co-founder of a pair of start-up companies. Ahead of his Keynote Session at the live Government Innovation Texas event on Octopber 19th, we sat down with Wayne for an exclusive Speaker Spotlight Q&A session: I like the creativity needed in problem solving. I don’t get the same problem over and over. I am allowed the freedom to think *way* outside the box. …

Using Centre-Led Approaches to Drive More Value from Corporate Services

The main purpose of a centralized approach is that the “central team directly delivers. There is a standardized strategy with central management of spending, data and information.” This could mean that it could become “very hierarchical, inefficient and costly, with a lack of flexibility and agility.” This could make it hard to “meet the needs of unique business units.” In a decentralized approach, “it is almost the opposite. It’s easier to meet the need of unique business units and results in faster decision-making” but at the same time, there is a “lack of corporate policy standards, higher costs and it …

Adopting an Enterprise Approach to Shared Services - Benefits, Challenges and Next Steps

In simple terms, the SSC exists so that “no other department needs to think about anything; we just take care of everything.” They are not quite there yet, but essentially “we are a common services provider, and we want to be taken for granted.” In other words, “we aim to enable most of the government’s 45 large departments and agencies to shift to the use of common IT systems.” In total, that means “half a million users across all government departments and agencies.” They best way to the achieve this for the SSC is through the use on an enterprise …