Procurement

In case you haven’t seen it, Paul Shelter from the Australian Government Digital Transformation agency recently published a post on his experience of transformation in Australia.

Paul and his team worked with departments, agencies and state governments to deliver six exemplar services – from medical appointments, to goods imports. No easy feat by anyone’s standards. 

It gave a great insight to the experience and there were plenty of lessons for procurement transformation to be had.

These were some of the key points he’s learned from the experience:

1. Let the problems choose you, not the other way round
   
   
2. Keep focused on the end outcomes
   
   
3. Blockers come in the form of cultural, structural and skills-based 
   
   
4. Complexity is an excuse
   
   
5. Whilst enthusiasm is there, there are still issues with skill gaps

You can check out the full story here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-16-months-digital-transformation-australia-paul-shetler

(Via LinkedIn December 3 2016)