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...
Is Ontario ripe for a new industrial policy?
Industrial policy is something that has often been criticized throughout the years – how can government effectively help businesses contribute...
The VOICE for mobility
Imagine, for a moment, a world without radio and television (much less the Internet) and one with voting privileges reserved...
Program revolution: New ways for solving government’s toughest problems
Just had a fascinating discussion with Paul Macmillan about the new book that he and Bill Eggers have written called...