Leadership and legacies
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By October 2015, Stephen Harper will have been Prime Minister for nine years, placing him among the longest serving prime...
Youth career path app claims CODE 2015 grand prize
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Team Niew Labs was crowned grand champions of CODE 2015 last week, claiming a $15,000 prize for an app called...
UK’s chief public executive keynote at APEX symposium
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John Manzoni, the head of the U.K. public service, will be the keynote speaker for APEX's annual Symposium, May 26-27.
Strong project management framework leads to organizational success
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The economy is sluggish…oil prices are down…stock markets are up but continually volatile. Are we undergoing a New Year’s hangover...
Big data analytics delivers actionable intelligence
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Technology has opened the door. Now governments have unprecedented opportunities to tap into their own data-rich sources of intelligence to...
Impossible Dreams
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I blogged in November 2012 about seeing Dr. Bernard Meyerson, VP Global Innovation, IBM, at that year’s GTEC. Dr. Meyerson...
A renewed commitment to internal audit modernization
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Whether at the territorial, provincial or federal government level, internal audit plays a critical role in aiding executives in the...
Systems evolution: A gigamap
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What is the central challenge facing government institutions and societies in coming decades? We define this challenge as Digital Era...
Text Messages and Government Records
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Today’s newspapers are once again reading that bureaucrats, this time in CRA, possibly deleted text messages that may be “government...
CGE appoints new editor-in-chief
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Canadian Government Executive Media (CGE) announced today that Patrice Dutil has been selected as editor CGE. Dutil is a professor...