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    Recently, changing federal government policy was a factor in the Australian Taxation Office's decision to extend its end user and centralised computing contracts with incumbent supplier EDS, the agency's CIO Bill Gibson has revealed.

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    Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson believes that with the days of one-vendor-fits-all type outsourcing now over, long-running rivals will be forced to enter marriages of convenience if they are to get a share of the government dollar.

  • Baby boomers choking AU$11bn IT outsourcing

    IT outsourcing in Australia is set to crack AU$11 billion in 2008, according to Gartner, but Australia's dwindling IT baby boomer generation will cause problems

  • Outsourcing managers must be axed or retrained

    Business will need to replace or retrain the executives responsible for managing outsourcing, or risk giving vendors the upper hand according to a visiting Gartner sourcing expert.

  • Is Big Bad?

    The days of the "big bang" project are numbered with businesses now demanding real returns from day one.

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  • How to manage outsourcing risks

    If you think managing the risk of IT projects is all about throwing everything over the fence to an external supplier, think again.

  • Resolving technical dilemmas

    There are always days when you just can't find the solution to a seemingly simple technical glitch. How do Australian IT professionals deal with this problem?

  • Outsourcing: not a golden bullet?

    Outsourcing is touted as providing cost savings, increased uptime and greater flexibility, but not all Australian IT managers agree that it's the answer.

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