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Cyber Security and Risk Management

Benefits of Cloud Security with Transport NSW

Across NSW Government there is a cloud strategy which “states that we must use public cloud first, as the default. We should only use the traditional data centres if it makes sense for our businesses or if we have no other alternative.” However, there are numerous ways to interpret this and there are a number of public cloud platforms. Before delving further, it is therefore important to understand these, and one way to do so is to think of them as “a cloud pizza model.” This was the model that “helped us to overcome and understand it at Transport NSW.” …
Benefits of Cloud Security with Transport NSW
Australia 31 Mar 2021
Industry Trends
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Data, Analytics and AI

Scaling and maturing automation to drive employee and student experience

The main focus of the automation was bots, software programs designed to perform repetitive tasks. But most of these bots “were on individual computers with no consistent coding.” There also wasn’t a lot of control around the bots, but the biggest problem was that there “was a lot of fear from staff around jobs,” specifically that automation could render some roles redundant. Overall, there were a lot of issues and misconceptions. The purpose of automation and RPA is to have “something that is scalable, easy to use and consistent amongst all environments.” Ultimately it is about reducing risks and errors, …
Scaling and maturing automation to drive employee and student experience
Australia 31 Mar 2021
Industry Trends
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Digital Services and Customer Experience

Bots and the Future of Customer Experience

Before the pandemic, “it was our country’s fourth largest export industry.” To engage with potential or current students, in 2018 ENZ decided to develop a chat-bot, which is a simulation of a human conversation, using artificial intelligence (AI) features. This was “a relatively new communications channel,” meaning that “there isn’t an established formula or methodology for chat-bot implementations.” However, at the time the agency was in no rush, and Jamie Crump was studying a “Masters of Technological Futures and developed an approach for the chat-bot project.” ““Nobody wants to engage with something that is dull, slow and hard to navigate …
Bots and the Future of Customer Experience
Australia 31 Mar 2021
Industry Trends
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Workforce, Skills and Capability

Women in Leadership Spotlight Series: Colleen McManus HR Programs Manager & Executive Consultant, State of Arizona

Much of my public sector career has been spent in para-military agencies, so I became accustomed to environments that were largely comprised of males, particularly in the key leadership and decision-making roles. I learned that if I regarded and presented myself as a professional first and woman second, other people saw and treated me as a professional. When I moved into senior leadership, I had the opportunity to mentor other women and create development programs for all staff in these environments, which helped to bring more diversity and inclusion in leadership roles. Throughout my career, I have been immersed in …
Women in Leadership Spotlight Series: Colleen McManus HR Programs Manager & Executive Consultant, State of Arizona
United States 30 Mar 2021
Interviews
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General

Government Procurement: Creating social value through better business

Australia and New Zealand are well placed to delve into the heart of the new decade in a better position, in a business sense, than both countries were before. Encouraged by their customers and clients, businesses are now looking to act in new and exciting ways, leading to plenty of unrivalled opportunities. B Lab, a global not-for-profit organisation, was founded so that businesses could be used as a force for good, thus leading to greater prospects for local employment, local supply chains and procurement opportunities, and greater environmental impacts. Certified B Corporations (aka B Corps) under the auspices of B …
Government Procurement: Creating social value through better business
Australia 29 Mar 2021
Whitepapers & Reports
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Data Analytics in Local Government

Local governments, like all public sector institutions, collect lots of data about their citizens. The intention is that the data will be used for good purposes to inform better decision-making, but that is not always the case. In fact, data can be used for nefarious purposes just as easily. This paper brings together three data experts from three local government jurisdictions – two from Australia and one from Canada. With a specific focus on improving the customer experience, each of them provides a perspective on how to manage data, how to work with it better by building technology around it, …
Data Analytics in Local Government
Australia 29 Mar 2021
Whitepapers & Reports
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Highlights Future Policing- Canada

The OIG therefore has a critical role to play. It works to ensure “that all of our officers and employees act with honesty, dignity and respect toward the public.” This is underpinned by two principles or aphorisms: One is based on an ancient Roman saying of “who will watch the watchers, or in a more modern parlance, who will police the police?” By the nature of their work, the police have the “authority to deprive someone of their freedom or possibly their life.” But they are not above the law and thus “we’ve created some oversight so they can do …
Highlights Future Policing- Canada
Canada 27 Mar 2021
Industry Trends
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Article: How Microsoft Teams is powering the modernization of municipalities

Municipalities form the backbone of our communities, providing a vast range of services that touch the daily lives of citizens. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic—which abruptly halted most in-person interactions and face-to-face visits—local governments had to reimagine how to deliver vital social services and maintain operations at important institutions. The solution was to transition quickly to a virtual service delivery and operational model. As virtual technologies affect almost every facet of our lives—including how we work, interact with healthcare providers, and educate our children—local governments need to consider how to enable the long-term digital transformation of municipalities with …
Article: How Microsoft Teams is powering the modernization of municipalities
Canada 27 Mar 2021
Industry Trends
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