All posts by Richard Johnstone

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  Success metrics revealed for Biden’s management agenda; Malaysia PM says civil servants must be ‘catalyst for change’: workforce and management news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Success metrics revealed for President Biden’s management agenda Senior US federal government officials have

  • Posted December 15, 2022
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  Leading public service innovators to share insights at major Global Government Forum conference

  Top public servants from around the world will share their secrets of government innovation at a major London conference next year. Officials from countries including Austria, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Norway

  • Posted December 11, 2022
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  US federal government to appoint officials to 10-year ‘temporary’ jobs

  The Biden administration is to press ahead with plans to allow the US federal government to appoint temporary officials for periods of up to a decade. This would more than

  • Posted December 5, 2022
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  UK civil servants highlight barriers to digital transformation in government

  Officials in the UK government have named legacy technology, budget constraints and a lack of training as the top barriers to transforming government services in exclusive Global Government Forum research.

  • Posted December 1, 2022
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  ‘It’s a break from the norm’: how moonshot approaches can drive government innovation

  At a time of unprecedented crises, governments need to innovate to meet massive – and fast-changing – challenges. In a Global Government Forum webinar, panellists looked at whether mission-based approaches

  • Posted November 29, 2022
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  ‘Work is an activity, not a place’: how governments are responding to the hybrid working era

  The era of flexible working means that the offices public servants work in need to change. Global Government Forum brought together property experts from governments in Canada, the UK, and

  • Posted November 22, 2022
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  ‘Many organisations will have to start to look at this’: how to make shared services work in the public sector

  The UK government is working on developing shared services across the public sector to help save money and provide more integrated services. A Global Government Forum webinar looked at what

  • Posted November 16, 2022
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  Canadian government becoming ‘hybrid by design’ says minister in challenge to back-to-office calls

  Treasury Board president Mona Fortier has insisted that the Government of Canada is working to harness the best of office and remote working as she responded to calls for business

  • Posted November 14, 2022
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  COP27: how finance ministries are working to net zero – but ‘missed a trick’ on COVID-19 response

  Much talk at the COP27 has already touched on the centrality of finance to helping the world reach net zero and tackle the effects of climate change, with many developing

  • Posted November 8, 2022
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  Rishi Sunak halts plan for 91,000 UK civil service job cuts – but staff reductions could still be coming

  New UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has scrapped plans initiated by Boris Johnson to reduce civil service headcount by 91,000 posts, but cuts could still happen as departments are tasked

  • Posted November 3, 2022
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