British efficiency expert Sir Peter Gershon has suggested agency budget cuts totalling $540 million, castigating the federal public sector for poor governance mechanisms on technology projects and an ICT spending model which gave individual departments and agencies too much autonomy.
The NSW state government will reportedly target savings from its information technology operations as one portion of a mammoth re-shuffle of departments and agencies in the state budget next Tuesday.
Sir Peter Gershon, the procurement expert responsible for slashing 23 billion (AU$49 billion) from the UK government's budget through ICT efficiency reviews has been recruited by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner for the Federal government's budget Razor Gang.
According to a new IDC report, IT budgets have increased across the Asia-Pacific region, but the management of these budgets has become the top priority for CIOs and IT managers.
Australian and New Zealand chief information officers (CIOs) expect IT budgets to increase by 3.6 percent in 2005, higher than last year's 1.2 percent and well above the 2005 global average of 2.5 percent, according to Gartner.
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Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?
Tighter budgets are prompting tech leaders to re-evaluate, reprioritize, and replan how technology monies will be spent this year. It's a familiar scenario that often involves deciding which projects get cut, which get postponed, and which need to be eliminated.
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A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.
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