Re: Easy win but challenging keep.
I have said this before -- but here we go again.
Local Government accounting is not the same as normal company accounting.
All spending must be traceable to a "vote in chambers" and to the individual members who voted for it.
On top of this many of the employees have legal powers, obligations and liabilities. Some can take away your children, order your house to be demolished, shutdown your business etc. etc.
So HR in local government is vastly different from any other organisation.
So Oracle foisted on them a bog standard ERP system designed for a company that bought stuff, manufactured other stuff and sold it.
Its also possible that many of the other screw ups could have been avoided if they had a working accounting and HR system.