Industry Trends

Supplier Relationship Management: Reworking SRM to Navigate Covid-19 Supply Chain Challenges
In part one of the Contract and Supplier Management in the Age of Covid-19 blog series we took a look at what successful contract management looked like and explored why a reworking, or indeed an implementation of supplier relationship management frameworks was integral to navigating procurement challenges for the remainder of 2020, as well as into the future. Essentially organisations don’t tend to invest in the life cycle of a contract – you invest in the procurement and once you’ve got a supplier in place, we expect them to get on and not cause any problems. While this ‘muddling’ along …

29 Sep 2020
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Public Sector Supply Chains of Tomorrow 2020
Some supply chains can be volatile and many have been affected by both technology and COVID-19. In the public sector, where public funds are used for procurement, supply chains ought to be ethical and transparent and there are global and national standards for this. The industry began to modernise and adapt before the start of the pandemic, but COVID-19 provided opportunities and challenges to further adapt. For example, the global procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE) required a re-think of procurement processes and procedures. This paper incorporates the procurement expertise and experiences of two NSW public sector agencies and one …

29 Sep 2020
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DevOps in the Public Sector 2020
Organisations continue to transform and use technology in innovative ways – one such way is through the use of DevOps, a term that stems from automating and integrating processes between Development and IT Operations. But it is a term that has multiple meanings because it is used and interpreted by different organisations in different ways. DevOps is essentially about breaking down the traditional silos between development and operations teams, including through the use of technology to make things simpler and more efficient. But even with this approach, products still need to be secure, compliant and easily adaptable. This paper incorporates …

29 Sep 2020
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Using Technology to Meet Your Customer Needs in 2020
Local governments are constantly innovating or order to better connect with their communities. Whilst this was true before the pandemic, COVID-19 has made them innovate in ways they never have before, using technology. All the councils saw the pandemic as a challenge but also an opportunity to better connect to their communities, and to continue this connection once the pandemic is over.

29 Sep 2020
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Multi Channel Citizen Engagement in 2020
Our modern world means that governments and government agencies need to engage with their stakeholders in new and innovative ways, and in multiple ways to create true engagement. Such an approach needs to have customers at its centre, needs to engage with the right audience for the right purpose and it needs to use technology in the best possible way to achieve its outcomes.

29 Sep 2020
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Safer Cities 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic that struck the world in 2020 was not something that any government planned for or was entirely prepared for. Yet, planning for disasters is something that governments regularly have done and continue to do. This is necessary, and at all levels, disaster p…

29 Sep 2020
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Driving Citizen Experience in the Public Service 2020
Public sector agencies haven’t always embraced technology as quickly as the public expects them to. While this began to change before the pandemic struck, COVID-19 has forced government agencies to embrace technology, to change their practices and to ensure that their users – the citizens – are at the centre of these changes.

29 Sep 2020
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Healthcare Innovation in 2020
Technology has changed how the world operates, but it has not changed the healthcare sector as much or as quickly as other sectors. Yet even the healthcare sector has realised that change is necessary, and technology is a key to that change. As such, many healthcare services have begun to innovate their practices and their service delivery. This process began before COVID-19, but the pandemic has focussed some of the innovation and has provided opportunities that the healthcare sector is now keen to embrace to ensure that it remains future-focussed. This paper incorporates the innovation examples from three different jurisdictions, …

29 Sep 2020