Time Isn’t Always On Our Side
An article in this week’s Harvard Business Review touts the importance of taking time to solve a problem. The authors...
Paradigm shift: The CIO as a strategic business enabler
This is the best of times for the CIO community. Our traditional role is evolving from technical specialist to digital...
Advancing the state of open government
The U.S. State Department, of all departments, has an Open Government Plan. The report notes, and it is no secret,...
CPSQA Meeting: Why You Need an Execution Plan
Today’s Canadian Public Sector Quality Association (CPSQA) meeting in Ottawa featured a workshop by Craig Szelestowski, president of Lean Agility,...
The reviews are in: Public sector management reform
Decades of reform in developing countries point to four enduring dilemmas: Reforms focus on changing rules and behaviour by design...
Institutional entrepreneur: The new public servant
Dramatic transformations to historically stable institutions are creating exciting opportunities to study the processes of institutional change. The reverberations of...
Colour Me Naive
You know, I have been around long enough to know better, but still choose to believe in stuff like Blueprint...
Weekly Roundup – September 13th
Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! We produced a lot of content this week, so if you missed any of it,...
What’s in a year’s worth of experience?
How often have you seen buyers use years or months as a measure of experience – "...at least three years’...
GTEC 2013 Distinction Awards
Last night, we attended the welcoming reception for honourees of the GTEC Distinction Awards at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Three-hundred...