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There’s a persistent belief in the public sector that if the existing machinery is slow, risk-averse, and fragmented, the solution is to build a new, smaller machine next to it. A "Centre of Excellence," a "Transformation Office," an "Innovation Hub." It’s the
australian-public-service
I remember sitting in a Gartner Conference workshop around 2013, somewhere in the Sydney. We were talking about "Big Data" and the Australian Public Service. The consultancy partner leading the session, all suit and enthusiasm, declared that data was the "new oil" and that if organisations
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I’ve just read the latest Australian Public Service Data Maturity Report... and honestly, it feels like déjà vu. The headline? A system-wide score of 2 out of 5 which Finance optimistically labels as “Developing”. Key areas like Data Architecture, Analytics, and crucially Data Quality & Metadata are stuck at