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“ Adopting a digital approach is absolutely vital in everything ”
— Andy Wood , Executive Director – Corporate Services , Department of Finance WA
as partners ,” says Wood . “ This helps them provide the best offerings to enable and achieve strategic outcomes .” Wood describes this as a paradigm shift in procurement thinking , where traditionally vendors would offer their best price to deliver a service or product to exact specifications , limiting the ability to understand the problem and collaborate on solutions . “ We take an approach whereby we select a small number of strategic partners which not only challenge us and our preconceptions but also look beyond technology in isolation and rather understand the full scope of Finance ’ s digital transformation .” Of its vendor-partners , Microsoft has been important through the Department ’ s digital transformation journey , particularly as a provider of vital cloud capabilities . “ Our previous operating model was very heavy and lethargic in that we would buy a piece of kit , we ’ d put it in place and it would stay there for 10 years and we ’ d never innovate with it ,” said Wood . “ Cloud computing has become a building block of Finance ’ s digital transformation . It ’ s
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