Herding cats: Project management in the public service
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According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project...
Lean health: Trimming Ontario’s waste
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With healthcare spending typically the single largest component of any government's budget, and with demographic changes adding more pressure to...
Building trust helps Metis make great strides
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In recent years, the Ontario government and the Metis people have signed several significant agreements under a new partnership.
A call for an entrepreneurial public sector
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Quote of the week “We’ve produced a dangerous form of individuality with entitlement rights that say essentially that you can...
Unlocking information
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The United States, Britain and Australia are moving toward open government that not only promotes information sharing and collaboration among...
Challenges for the communications function
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If there is one area of government that continues to change rapidly it is the communications function.
What of regulation?
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Much of the current conversation about the federal government's economic agenda has concentrated on its decision to cut the GST...
The strategic planning imperative
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In the wake of the G8 and G20 meetings it was expected that the government would build on the success...
Trust, the antidote to risk aversion
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Wayne Wouters has been Secretary to Cabinet, Clerk of the Privy Council Office, and Head of the Public Service of...
Closing the performance gap
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Together with Robert Kaplan, David P. Norton is the creator of The Balanced Scorecard, a means of linking an organization's...