Reduction of the Irish
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The Irish government is determined to reform government, including the way it delivers services.
Australia’s blueprint for public sector reform
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As promised, the advisory group on the future of the Australian Public Service (APS) delivered its report to Prime Minister...
Preparing the Gen Y managers
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It's not just that executives are about to retire – it's that the top four layers, from deputy minister through...
Unprecedented collaboration needs broader participation
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After years of attacking waste and piling new administrative rules on top of old ones, the federal government is now...
IT project success: It’s about managing change
6 min read
Ken Cochrane was the CIO for Canada from June 2006 until December 2008, when his executive exchange expired.
New mechanisms for the e-health quagmire
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When President Barack Obama campaigns during the coming months for re-election, odds are he will not be reviving one of...
Case of the disappearing data
4 min read
Students of public administration struggle with an important contradiction of Westminster governance.
Why we follow bad leaders
6 min read
Reading Walter Isaacson's interminable but also always fascinating biography of Steve Jobs, I was mulling over the question of how...
A positive spin
6 min read
Managers generally walk around with a what's-going-wrong mentality. They are fixated on rooting out errors, and fixing those.
How smart computing can help government do more with less
4 min read
Combining the digital age with the current climate of financial austerity is a challenge for government leaders who want to...