In this case, we have a productive oil refinery that had paid off its initial investment long before. As we can see in the BP case, the Active Threats and Opportunities Management (ATOM) process is rarely implemented correctly (Hillson & Simon, 2007, 23)
Just in terms of financial losses, BP agreed to pay some $370 million in fines for the Texas City disaster and resulted in the changeover in CEOs. The Texas City explosion is illustrative because it does not involve other contractors and companies such as the Deepwater Horizon (Mouawad, 2010)
There was a history of safety issues at the plant, even before the 2005 fire. This ATOM analysis will concentrate on those reports because the reports after the disaster are predisposed to blaming John Browne and the upper management at BP, though this may be justified since the refinery was a BP asset from 1999 on (Trevor, 2007, 4) Therefore, the Telos Report of 2004 should yield some good objective information for the ATOM process
At that time, an Outsourcing and Contract Management Unit was created in the Department of Treasury and Finance. It issued contracting guidelines to assist public agencies who closely followed the NSW 1993 guidelines and included industry and regional stakeholders in the outsourcing process (Abelson 2004, 3)
From that point on, the applications began to outsourced to the Australia Post with firearms checks being carried out by firearms dealers . From that point on, all licensing decisions were centralised to make sure that they were recorded properly and that the paperwork was consistent (Cox 2009)
It was further revealed that the WA Police had lost their track of thousands of guns and that the firearms licensing system was in disarray. This admission came 18 months after a review by Auditor-General Colin Murphy found that the WA Police did not adequately monitor the possession, use and dealing of firearms in the community (DeCeglie 2011)
In this case, public safety and customer service have been identified as areas that need the most work. In this way, it will pass the merit review that the public demands (Harris 2007, 3)
Risk management is a key issue in any outsourcing scheme, hence the move to keep it confined to clerical functions. In addition, proper contract formation will prevent much of the liability problems (Hood, J
The perception of the outsourcing is as important as the process itself. Surveys such as the Cranfield survey have revealed that public service managers feel that accountability to the public has been disrupted by unnecessary outsourcing of processes and activities (Kakabadse and Kakabadse 2001, 412)
For instance, the Victorian police IT department was termed "shambolic" due to its inability to account for funding (Rout 2009). On the other had, business process outsourcing has consistently produced both financial and transformative dividends in the private sector (Mani, Barua and Whinston 2010, 1)
These sources can be immediately outsourced and the other tasks can be examined to see if paperwork components can also be out-sourced. This should hit overhead costs hard, just as the McIvor article advocates (McIvor, 2011, 30)
This is particularly the case in areas such as IT where things seem to get messed up frequently, though outsiders are able to perform better. For instance, the Victorian police IT department was termed "shambolic" due to its inability to account for funding (Rout 2009)
All of this has to be radically redefined during a time of outsourcing. This outsourcing has been the norm in Australian government since the mid-1990s (Webster and Harding 2001, 231)
At that time, an Outsourcing and Contract Management Unit was created in the Department of Treasury and Finance. It issued contracting guidelines to assist public agencies who closely followed the NSW 1993 guidelines and included industry and regional stakeholders in the outsourcing process (Abelson 2004, 3)
From that point on, the applications began to outsourced to the Australia Post with firearms checks being carried out by firearms dealers . From that point on, all licensing decisions were centralised to make sure that they were recorded properly and that the paperwork was consistent (Cox 2009)
It was further revealed that the WA Police had lost their track of thousands of guns and that the firearms licensing system was in disarray. This admission came 18 months after a review by Auditor-General Colin Murphy found that the WA Police did not adequately monitor the possession, use and dealing of firearms in the community (DeCeglie 2011)
In this case, public safety and customer service have been identified as areas that need the most work. In this way, it will pass the merit review that the public demands (Harris 2007, 3)
Risk management is a key issue in any outsourcing scheme, hence the move to keep it confined to clerical functions. In addition, proper contract formation will prevent much of the liability problems (Hood, J
The perception of the outsourcing is as important as the process itself. Surveys such as the Cranfield survey have revealed that public service managers feel that accountability to the public has been disrupted by unnecessary outsourcing of processes and activities (Kakabadse and Kakabadse 2001, 412)
For instance, the Victorian police IT department was termed "shambolic" due to its inability to account for funding (Rout 2009). On the other had, business process outsourcing has consistently produced both financial and transformative dividends in the private sector (Mani, Barua and Whinston 2010, 1)