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on its brand and website update.
Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “Most government agencies hold monopolies over the services they deliver. They don’t need flash branding to outshine competitors, because they don’t have any.”
“Taxpayers fund agencies to deliver services. Unfortunately, when you leave any group of bureaucrats in a room together for long enough, they’ll inevitably forget about services and turn their attention to their own logo.”
“This navel-gazing instinct is too powerful for government agencies to manage. We need to simply ban the rebrands.”
“Last year we revealed that the fire services spent $6.2 million on its rebrand – the most expensive government rebrand we’ve ever seen. Then there was CYFS, which became the Ministry for Vulnerable Children, which became Oranga Tamariki. Even local councils have jumped on the rebrand-wagon, with Porirua spending $98,000 on its infamous ‘smiley face’ rebrand.”
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Preparing payroll tender, MSD tips hat to AoG panel and common process model
Managing the dependencies between enterprise software projects in government appears challenging. Credit: IDG
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is getting ready to go to market for new, cloud-based payroll software to replace its existing Chris21 on-premises system.
However, there were a few developments and dependencies in the broader government sphere the department clearly needed to consider.
In a notice issued last week, MSD said it intended to go to market for a SaaS system from the third quarter of 2021, either using a tender process or by secondary procurement via the all of government payroll programme.
More funding needed for schemes by Māori, for Māori - Willie Jackson newshub.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newshub.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.