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What about an Organisational Review? It is said that organisations are perfectly designed to achieve the results they do! Not good enough? Then something needs to change! A review will determine what, where and why and recommend how, when and who.

In March 2010 the Government announced its intention to form a new Ministry from a merger of the existing Ministry of Research Science and Technology and the Foundation for Research Science and Technology. This Ministry was later announced as the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Probity was involved in the merger through the involvement of three of our consultants.

Over the past ten years many organisations, and especially those that have replaced their financial management information systems, will have introduced document scanning combined with automated workflow into their businesses. These two advancements in technology have enabled organisations to reduce the volume of paper circulating and have in general sped up the invoice approval and payment process.
However, another advancement in technology now enables further automation to the accounts payable function and one that has significant impacts on the costs associated with transaction processing. The following is the story of how NZ Fire Service fully automated their accounts payable function.