Policy in a POD
Over the past two years, Alberta’s government has put into place a new approach for internal government discourse to support...
Saskatchewan public servants receive award for excellence
The government of Saskatchewan gave the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Public Service last week to six teams and...
Weekly Roundup – September 20th
Is it Friday already? We’ve had a lot of content this week. If you’ve missed any of it, you can...
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...