Big challenges for the new Secretary of the Treasury Board
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The new Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada, Yaprak Baltacioglu, takes over the government’s management board as the feds...
Getting the best bang for your executive buck
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The last great international effort to refashion the public sector took place during the 1980s in tandem with efforts of...
Becoming a digital nation
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It is clear that mobile, digital media is transforming the way in which organizations, families and governments interact and communicate...
A balanced role for government
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Last night in Toronto the head of the Ontario public service, Peter Wallace, spoke at the 2012 Fleck Lecture on...
Collaborative strategic planning: A key to improved healthcare delivery
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Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Health is leading a new approach to strategic planning based on deep organizational engagement and collaborative decision...
Are we ready for the cyber employee?
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In numerous interviews with senior military commanders over the past several years, Vanguard magazine has often posed the question: what...
Targeted attack: Spear phishing for intelligence
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In early February, James R. Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, told the House Select Intelligence Committee that threats...
“I’ve made suggestions to improve things, they just ignore it.”
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Governments are busy downsizing. But how much are they doing to improve their processes? How pervasive is this “clay layer”...
Strategic downsizing: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
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It’s all very well to talk about making government smaller. But smaller government is only part of the puzzle.