Victoria's auditor-general has published a common sense guide to implementing large IT projects with the aim of improving the state government's recent poor record in the area.
Western Australia's Auditor General Colin Murphy late last week delivered a scathing report into the security of state government IT systems, billing it as a "wake-up call" to departments and agencies.
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.
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