A healthy debate
they tend to gloss over the substantial range of public servants that exist
Good Enough, Is
I have been working with government now for about 15 years and somewhere in that period I became infected with...
Lessons of adopting an enterprise approach
The federal government, through Shared Services Canada, is focusing on integrating IT systems to create an enterprise-wide approach. The goal...
Fellowship of the Ring: Government and civil society
Commitment to social justice can erode in times of austerity, change, and uncertainty. The divergent views of the blue-ribbon panel...
The Europeans are coming! The Koreans are coming!
The early May annual workshop of the Canadian Institute of Procurement and Materiel Management covered many topics that could have...
Fellowship of the Ring: Government and civil society
Commitment to social justice can erode in times of austerity, change, and uncertainty. The divergent views of the blue-ribbon panel...
Lessons on stifling innovation
Francis Fukuyama is best known for his book, The End of History. He has written a paper called What is...
Individual philanthropy, collective power
“I wasn’t really nervous until he hooked up the wires,” said the raffle winner about his prize – the supervised...
Striving for performance excellence
In mid-2011, concerns about New Brunswick’s deficit and the province’s increasing demographic challenges were raising questions about the government’s long-term...
A possible counter to Canadian risk aversion
A U.S. report by Deloitte looks at how federal agencies can build what it calls a "risk appetite framework" based...