Re: Can we copy one which work
This is the age old debate of should you have:
A) A centralised system that the whole country uses, cost efficient as it's designed and implemented once with a central IT function and using best practice from across the country. BUT imposes a top down view of the world that's slow and costly to change for any one council's needs and takes no account of local factors, likely spawning a host of smaller home grown satellite IT systems to close the functionality gaps.
B) A local system for local people, that meet the needs of the local council's issues and is easier and cheaper to change, and change can be implemented quickly. BUT means you have 60 odd systems across the country, all doing things slightly differently, duplicating effort and cost.
That philosophical debate covers not only councils, but hospitals, police, fire service, ambulance service etc.
Plus there is massive resistance to change from entrenched empires within these organisations, from people who will lose their jobs or positions if there was to be a change. Not to mention the back handers that definitely do go on.