Adobe’s Digital Government Assembly: A way forward
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Adobe held its third annual Digital Government Assembly on Thursday at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. The key theme...
Mobility and government: From rhetoric to readiness
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The world is going mobile and governments must adapt. Underscoring the weight of this reality, Facebook recently announced it is...
Reports: Time to remove excessive controls and allow more risk tolerance
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A year ago, the 7th annual report of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service said it was...
When even change is caught up in red tape
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While the gist of the 7th annual report of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service focuses on...
The passion and persistence of innovation
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"Innovation" might be an overused buzzword in defence and security circles, but since the stand-up of the Canadian Innovation Commercialization...
Are we developing the managers of the future?
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After teaching several hundred students over the years, I have found that there is a major need for what I...
Leveraging the cloud for public safety: a case study
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Media Sonar is a London, Ont.-based start-up that works with public safety organizations to help them mine social media and...
Is it déjà vu all over again?
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Ten years ago I was as member of the Parliamentary Secretary’s Task Force, Government-Wide Review of Procurement, looking into ways...
What are you doing to improve performance in your organization?
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If there is one thing governments spend a lot of time doing, it’s thinking about, and reporting on, performance. And...
A public servant’s guide to new governments
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CGE columnist David Zussman, Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at...