Although Shared Services Canada is certainly one of the most ambitious government IT transformations ever envisioned, it is still way too early to determine if the goals, including the aggressive financial-savings estimates, are achievable or even realistic. IT transformations of any size or duration are always tricky, complicated affairs, so one enveloping dozens of departments across a wide geographic area spanning several years is certainly suspect. All IT employees of the Public Works and Government Services Canada division were made part of Shared Services Canada, but it is not clear what will happen to agency-level IT workers who will be impacted once these various initiatives begin to roll out.
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