It has worked with the Federation of Small Business to update planning policy to facilitate economic development and further changes to the planningsystem to promote economic development are currently out to consultation.
Driven by government-wide budget cuts, this reduction is expected to primarily affect acquisition planning, IT systemdevelopment and program management contracts.
Lacking a forward planning process based on scenario development, and lacking a good market sensing system that would pick up on the early market shift as novice competitor Apple started to really change the market, these companies are now falling rapidly to the wayside.