From austerity to agility
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With the federal public service in a state of budgetary retrenchment, for many managers the focus is understandably on the...
Collaboration key to environmental innovation
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Saskatchewan's Ministry of Environment is leading a new approach built on results-based regulations to enhance environmental protection while encouraging innovation.
The people management challenge
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The 2012 budget has come and gone but the huge challenge of implementing its key human resource and programming elements...
A national priority: Creating a science policy centre
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Science and technology have been major contributors to the economic prosperity and social well-being of our nation.
Science solution: The business of innovation
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There is little doubt that the federal government is reshaping the public service. In science, the government is also looking...
Mixed media: The generational communications conundrum
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It's no secret that the government workforce is changing in both the U.S. and Canada. One reason is diversity; the...
Five factors for managed print services
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Governments throughout Canada are facing a number of challenges, from reducing operational costs to meeting sustainability goals to procurement reform....
Unprecedented change requires transformation
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Yesterday I chaired a Toronto session, sponsored by IBM, that looked at the challenges facing the OPS as it copes...
Re-imagining the policymaking process
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In a technologically enabled, globalized world where the bad lending practices of banks in California can wreak havoc on the...