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Teresa Anderson's Insights

Cyber Security and Risk Management

2022's Top 3 Rising Cyber Threats

As Australia and New Zealand carry on the battle against Covid-19 and companies continue to move to a hybrid model of working, cybersecurity has become more important than ever. Cyber-attacks grew exponentially in 2021 and 2022 looks set for more of the same. Below are three rising threats companies are facing in the year ahead. Ransomware attacks continue to threaten the security of critical data across the globe. Cyber criminals have exploited the pandemic by carrying out more large scale phishing attacks, affecting businesses of all sizes across Australia and New Zealand. These attacks succeed largely due to human error, …

2022's Top 3 Rising Cyber Threats

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State-wide Connectivity

“With the right policy reforms, the right projects and some good strategic investment in the digital space, our regional communities will be uniquely positioned to leverage opportunities in a post-COVID digital economy for accelerated growth in key sectors.

State-wide Connectivity

Workforce, Skills and Capability

Strategic Workforce Planning

At the recent Strategic Workforce Planning event, we heard from Jeanne Weissl, Director, Strategic Human Rights, BC Ministry of Children and Family Development as she dived into how to align your workforce with the future direction of your organization. A people plan, a people and culture plan or an HR plan are all part of the same thing. Yet some organizations claim that they “don’t have time for such a plan, or it’s too much work.” It is true that the process to create a plan can be lengthy, but it is equally true in almost all cases that not …

Strategic Workforce Planning

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Digital Healthcare Innovation: Trends Driving Digital Health Transformation in 2022 & Beyond

The COVID-19 pandemic is placing enormous strain on the global health care sector’s workforce, infrastructure, and supply chain, and exposing social inequities in health and care. COVID-19 is also accelerating change across the ecosystem and forcing public and private health systems to adapt and innovate in a short period. The Covid-19 pandemic has, and still is, placing enormous strain on the Australian healthcare sector. Everything from workforce to infrastructure, supply chains and access to care have had a spotlight shone on them in the last 20 months. While exerting strain and revealing how vulnerable the healthcare industry is, the pandemic …

Digital Healthcare Innovation: Trends Driving Digital Health Transformation in 2022 & Beyond

IT Modernization and Cloud

Enterprise Architecture Capability with a Focus on Data, Information & Analytics

Unlike in other organisations, the CEO or chief statistician at Stats NZ is also the “government chief data steward (GCDS),” and the refresh came about because the GCDS wanted to know “what are the key data assets, and what policy or governance levers enable access and use.” New Zealand’s government enterprise architecture provides a simple structure for information and tools that support “a purposeful change and the refresh, in particular, is focussed on the data, information and analysis domains.” The refresh also came about because governments often have “good intentions and good ideas, but then priorities within the organisation change, …

Enterprise Architecture Capability with a Focus on Data, Information & Analytics

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Procurement Innovation in the APS

Supply chains the world over suffered a real shock as a result of Covid-19. For the public sector, the fragility of supply chain and procurement initiatives was highlighted. This coupled with our growing dependence upon global supply has exposed weaknesses in long-standing ways of working. Supply chain and procurement professionals across the APS are now taking the lessons learned from the last 18 months and are looking to enact change. Through new ways of working, procurement leaders are looking towards smarter, better, and more efficient procurement practices. However a number of challenges; including operational complexity and competing priorities stand in …

Procurement Innovation in the APS

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Process Transformation & Excellence

The pandemic and the pace of technology continue to show that the world is changing very rapidly. Having established that agility and innovation are important, what does this mean for governments in Australia? Essentially agility is about “the evolution of management practices. It is not a specific delivery methodology or framework, but is about how we navigate the uncertainty and complexity of the environment that we are in.” To be truly agile and innovative, “since the target is now shifting and moving,” rather than engaging in large government projects that “could take multi-years to complete and cost hundreds of millions …

Process Transformation & Excellence

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Asset and Infrastructure Management

“The Victorian government aims to meet the infrastructure challenge with a revolutionary transformation of the way our projects operate and perform, through the implementation of a sound, practical and holistic approach to digitalisation.

Asset and Infrastructure Management

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