How did Sir Peter Gershon become involved?
Tanner: This all came from a general policy stance we came into government with, of reforming procurement across the board, and going through different product categories and looking for options to move towards a more coordinated model. Early on, my Department recommended to me that we get an outside expert to examine the whole IT thing. Because it was particularly complicated and challenging, I was happy to do that. We were very fortunate to get Sir Peter Gershon, he is generally acknowledged as a worldwide expert in this. And he did a great job. There was no crap. There was no flowery rhetoric. The actual text of his report was only about 70 pages, but it was bang! Do this. Bang! This is crook. Bang! Fix that. And so far it has stood the test of time. The strategy that’s emerged is cutting back ‘Business as Usual’ spending, reinvesting half of the savings in new projects, getting the whole-of-Government data centre strategy, shifting back to more reliance on in-house capability, pers
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