Bradlow's push comes as Telstra itself looks to through 'Project New', a $290 million business revitalisation project announced by chief executive, David Thodey, at the telco's yearly financial results briefing last year.

The company's continued efforts to cut fat and remove superfluous internal division has reduced a staff count once more than 50,000 internal employees to around 34,000.

Though outsourcing and Cloud migration strategies have resulted in companies like Jetstar whittling their resources to as little as five in-house staff, others - like maintenance services company the Programmed Group - maintain .

Jetstar CIO, Stephen Tames, told that the budget airline's IT outsourcing strategy, which has been in place since the company was first erected as a Qantas subsidiary, had on-flow effects to the wider group's investigation of business service outsourcing.

Tames was also focused on developing the strategy as an "IT-as-a-service" approach, delivering the same capabilities to franchisees of the airline's brand across Asia Pacific for a fee.