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As managers and leaders we are often trained in and talk about change and its management. We learn the methods for change and then we observe and experience change constantly. From the perspective of our organisations, change is often the difference between where we are now to where we want to be at some future point.
We all know that the pandemic will one day be behind us (hopefully soon…), but that doesn’t mean that organisations can probably return to business as usual.
There are significant benefits for councils when utilising software for the booking and payments related to the hire of council facilities and assets. It removes a lot of manual processes and can free up staff to do other work. It also helps to facilitate the ease at which the community can access council facilities to the benefit of ratepayers and residents.
Clear to me during research for this article, is that many Councils are still determining asset management strategies that best suits their needs. Councils have no shortage of software options to choose from once they determine their actual software needs.
To ensure effective decision-making and efficient use of public money, engineers (who build and maintain assets) and accountants (who manage the finances) must work with the same asset data. When this is not the case, a council’s decisions may be compromised, and it is at risk of wasting public money.
The Document Management Solution of a council is often the key repository for all council knowledge. It is probably the most widely used system across a council and holds a council’s intellectual property.
Organisational resilience refers to a business’s ability to adapt and evolve as the global market grows, responding to short-term shocks – be they natural disasters or significant changes in market dynamics – and shaping itself to respond to long-term challenges.
Right now, a lot of change is happening in the market for local government solutions. ERP software vendor boardrooms are flat out figuring out strategy on how to shift customers from their on-premises software to their cloud hosted platforms in order to secure their customer base for the next 5 to 10 years.
According to Garner, by 2024, over 40% of public-sector knowledge workers will permanently work from home, contributing up to 20% to capital cities’ economic decline.
Right now, a lot of change is happening in the market for local government solutions. ERP software vendor boardrooms are flat out figuring out strategy on how to shift customers from their on-premises software to their cloud hosted platforms in order to secure their customer base for the next 5 to 10 years.
Over the last five years, on average, councils spent approximately $7.7 billion on goods and services each year.
Right now, a lot of change is happening in the market for local government solutions. ERP software vendor boardrooms are flat out figuring out strategy on how to shift customers from their on-premises software to their cloud hosted platforms in order to secure their customer base for the next 5 to 10 years.
What will you do if your biggest vendors said, “our prices are increasing this year by 20%” or if these vendors were in USD and our Aussie dollar dropped by 20%. Do you have an extra 40% in your OPEX budget?
In FY2020, one QLD regional council was subject to a ransomware attack. A ransomware attack is a form of a cyber-attack where the attacker gains access to information systems and demands a ransom to return the information.
Strategy execution has always been the essential complement of strategy formulation for any local government or regional authority. An increasing speed of technology-enabled change has meant the importance of strategy implementation has increased exponentially for all of us.
Leaders that learn to adopt a particularly open and curious mindset whilst adhering to a systematic process for cracking even the most inscrutable problems. Naturally, when conditions of uncertainty are at their peak or most dire they’re at their brilliant best.
The rise of remote working is also blurring the lines between work, home life and caring responsibilities. This has a notable, and understandable, impact on our levels of concentration and ability to make optimal decisions.
According to Gartner, the government is a unique and risk-averse environment with chronic underinvestment in technology, a cost-centric view of IT, and a proliferation of data and digital roles, yet often scarce digital leadership.
Any initiative that involves change can create concerns and worries, but the negativity that greets ERP initiatives is unparalleled in business and IT.
The three main reasons for this according to Gartner’s latest research are:
Guess what? Your cloud hosting provider DOES NOT secure your data. You do. They divest themselves of that risk in your contract – whilst you pay for any backup input outputs! And that may be a big sum over your contract so read your fine print.
Two things on which we can all agree is that recent times have been of disruption, and that complex change is now the constant.
Contributing to our way ahead in this “new world” is widespread social anxiety and even geopolitical uncertainty. Our trading partners continuing to move away or each other, and the threats within ICT security and data loss are truly markers that the world has changed forever.
Following the normal modus operandi of a business department needing to implement tasks from a strategic plan, a project manager inherits a project title and a due date. That can just mean a new scoping headache.
Following the normal modus operandi of a business department needing to implement tasks from a strategic plan, a project manager inherits a project title and a due date. That can just mean a new scoping headache.
