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Municipal management is rife with opportunity and innovation ... and pressures to match. Adam Bender, Tim Mendham, Patrick Thibodeau and Marketa Hulpachova report on the IT leaders who help to build their cities.
Municipal management is rife with opportunity and innovation ... and pressures to match. Adam Bender, Tim Mendham, Patrick Thibodeau and Marketa Hulpachova report on the IT leaders who help to build their cities.
Despite union pressure, 55 IT staff at Brisbane City Council (BCC) will lose their jobs after the council decided to outsource their roles to Indian outsourcer HCL.
Recent natural disasters such as the Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi mean now is the time to look at ways of avoiding ICT and staff issues in the event of a crisis, Brisbane City Council IT experts argue.
Brisbane City Council has become one of the first Australian public sector organisations to adopt a public Cloud service from Microsoft, leading the charge as state and federal governments consider the implications of such a migration.