In relation to such matters as software and telecommunications engineering, appropriate expertise is drawn upon, from within the A.N.U. and elsewhere. Seed funding for the Programme was provided by the A.N.U.'s Bruce Fund. Support has subsequently been attracted from a variety of sources. In relation to some projects, an entrepreneurial role is adopted, with the research investment being recovered from sales of the resulting publications. The depth of understanding of supra-organisational systems is enhanced by consultancy work.
Care is taken to identify, and avoid or manage, any potential conflicts of interest.
This section explains the notion. Computers have been applied to the processing of data since the 1950s. From the late 1960s, telecommunications technology was increasingly used to link geographically dispersed users with computers. This era might be described as that of ' intra-organisational systems '. The needs of pairs of organisations operating in partnership are served by ' inter-organisational systems '.