Leader as hero: The power of commitment
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When times get tough, we turn to leaders for courage. Yet rarely is courage found in the competency profile of...
Leader as Hero: The Power of Commitment
3 min read
When times get tough, we turn to leaders for courage. Yet rarely is courage found in the competency profile of......
Are we ready for robots?
7 min read
It's time to sound the alert about the rise of robots. They are becoming a ubiquitous feature of industrialized countries...
Everything has changed
4 min read
We hear it often about the digital era: “Everything has changed.” We hear that new technologies, business models, and modes...
Savings without reduced service
4 min read
Cost savings in government programs and services used to be achieved simply by cutting budgets. But is there a way...
From wireless to wearables
4 min read
For skeptics, Google’s recent decision to abandon sales of its current iteration of Google Glass is mere confirmation that wearing...
Global Solution Networks: A revolution in governance
7 min read
I don’t think governments have changed fundamentally since Al Gore made that famous commitment 20 years ago. We’ve largely paved...
Architects, wordsmiths, parrots, duckers and naysayers
4 min read
I wrote about accountability more than a year ago. Recently, a colleague whispered to me that it is time to...
Coders find new apps in government data
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And then there were 15. Of 125 apps built from open government data for CODE 2015, fifteen are still in...
When data meets regulatory uncertainty
4 min read
Last September Netflix refused the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) order to provide confidential subscriber information and in so...