All posts tagged "government"

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  How can governments build trust and demonstrate value to a skeptical public?

  The work of the government and public sector is profoundly challenging in 2025. By focusing on integrated risk management, public sector leaders can deliver better on their obligations to constituents

  • Posted January 30, 2025
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  Six considerations for government leaders to drive productivity

  Never before have governments been asked to do so much, so fast, while facing considerable pressures – rising customer service expectations, fiscal constraints, overstretched organisations and workforce fatigue.  Technologies like

  • Posted December 2, 2024
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  Digital Leaders Study 2024: Embedding AI across government in the UK

  Artificial intelligence represents a potentially transformative shift for government – one that could revolutionise policymaking, national security and the delivery of public services. Governments, private companies and individual citizens around

  • Posted September 18, 2024
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  Hong Kong officials must receive vaccine or fund fortnightly tests

  The Hong Kong government has extended its vaccinations policy to back office workers, and now requires every government employee to get vaccinated or undertake fortnightly PCR tests. From 1 September,

  • Posted August 20, 2021
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  UK government: Time to think again about the journey to digital transformation?

  I’ve written before about how the COVID-19 crisis has forced UK government departments to accelerate their digital transformation, and proved that it’s possible to put policy into practice in weeks, rather than months or years.

  • Posted August 2, 2021
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  Ministerial code no longer working and needs overhaul, warns UK think tank

  The UK’s ministerial code, which establishes the standards that govern ministers’ behaviour, needs to be “overhauled” and underpinned by statute, according to a leading think tank.  Multiple incidents – including

  • Posted July 8, 2021
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  Cyber security testing: the different techniques that benefit governments

  Proactive security testing can help identify risks and vulnerabilities in a department’s system, enabling officials to better prevent, detect and respond to incidents and continuously improve security. Security testing needs

  • Posted May 24, 2021
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  Reset, Rebuild, Recover – leveraging digital technologies to respond to the social and economic impact of COVID-19

  Across the world, the economic stimulus response to COVID-19 far outsize those to the 2008 financial crisis – 33 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) versus 3.5 percent of GDP

  • Posted January 11, 2021
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  Five interesting insights from the OECD’s governance report

  The recent publication includes some surprising lessons for civil service leaders – arguing, for example, that some anti-corruption practices can be counterproductive Last month, the OECD published a report promoting

  • Posted January 8, 2021
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  How analytics is helping state governments head off unemployment claims fraud

  If you’re in state government, you’re well aware of the unprecedented challenges that come with off-the-charts unemployment numbers due to COVID-19. Crashing websites at state unemployment insurance offices and multi-hour

  • Posted May 20, 2020
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