EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Steve Hodgkinson, CIO
Steve has been DHHS CIO since 2014. He was previously
Chief Analyst Public Sector for research & advisory firm
Ovum. In earlier years he founded and sold an
e-commerce company and worked in a range of
executive and consulting roles in the government
and utilities sectors in Europe and Australasia.
In his university years he worked as a Search & Rescue
mountaineer for Aoraki Mount Cook National Park
in New Zealand. He has a doctorate in Management
Studies from the University of Oxford and
a First Class Honours Degree in Information
Systems from the University of Otago.management; SAP’s SuccessFactors
for human capital management and
Oracle Cloud ERP for finance systems.
Hodgkinson observes that the
Platform+Agile approach is transforming
the logic of technology procurement
in his department. It is now a ‘Game of
Platforms’ as opposed to a more
traditional ‘Game of Tenders’. “Use
cases are increasingly contested
across our platforms to select the
best existing platform for a new
application rather than in the past
where we would have run a tender to
select a new vendor and technology
for each application. Vendors need
to understand that the game has
fundamentally changed. The Game
of Platforms is a long game based on
maintaining positive and deep strategic
relationships, not a transactional game
based on winning tenders.”
To be able to scale-up projects to
deliver new applications in these
cloud services platforms, DHHS has
developed a procurement mechanism
known as the Solution Delivery Panel.
Key vendors on the panel include
Access Testing, CSC DXC, Datacom,
Dialog, DWS, Firma, Infosys, Landell, 323http://www.gigabitmagazine.com