How to avoid another Canberra tech wreck
The ditching of a new $400 million back office system yet again reveals the federal government’s deeply flawed approach to technology and digital transformation.
The federal government dumped yet another big tech project this week, as Finance Minister Katy Gallagher pulled the rug on an ambitious $400 million project to standardise the corporate back-office systems of more than 100 agencies.
In about 2015, The Finance department conceived the idea of a single, modern cloud-based business system to take over from a cacophony of enterprise systems that had grown higgledy-piggledy across the Commonwealth.
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