All posts tagged "John Manzoni"

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  Pointing the way forward on civil service reform

  Delivering reforms means “changing the engine as the plane is in flight”, Singapore’s civil service head Leo Yip told colleagues from 17 countries at the 2020 Global Government Summit. Matt

  • Posted May 25, 2020
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  Beyond the gifted amateur: building a professional workforce

  Civil services need both the specialist professional expertise to deliver for ministers, and the authority to advise ministers on what is deliverable. At the Global Government Summit, top officials from

  • Posted May 15, 2020
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  From clenched fists to handshakes: top officials debate how to get departments working together

  In almost every country, governments are organised vertically – but the challenges they face run horizontally across departmental boundaries. Earlier this year, civil service leaders from 17 countries met to

  • Posted May 7, 2020
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  How inequality fosters instability: top civil servants on tackling the ‘populist backlash’

  When people feel that the game of life is fixed, they lose trust in leaders and institutions – resorting to protests and populists. At the 2020 Global Government Summit, top

  • Posted May 3, 2020
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  New UK Cabinet Office chief revealed

  Alex Chisholm, permanent secretary at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), is to replace Sir John Manzoni as UK Cabinet Office permanent secretary. But in an apparent

  • Posted March 30, 2020
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  UK civil service CE John Manzoni to stand down in the summer

  Sir John Manzoni, who has been chief executive of the UK civil service and permanent secretary of the Cabinet Office since 2014, will stand down in the summer, it has

  • Posted January 23, 2020
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  UK geodata and digital chiefs to step down

  The heads of the UK’s digital unit and its geospatial data strategy are both to leave their jobs, with digital chief Kevin Cunnington moving to a new role promoting UK

  • Posted June 24, 2019
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  UK ‘breaking open’ civil service recruitment, says chief exec

  The UK civil service’s ‘ridiculously structured’ approach to recruitment has held it back, chief executive John Manzoni said last week: its new hiring process should bring in people with broader

  • Posted April 18, 2019
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  Brexit demands pace and innovation, says John Manzoni

  The UK civil service has never previously faced a challenge like Brexit. To meet that challenge, its chief executive John Manzoni argues, officials must take a very different approach to

  • Posted March 7, 2019
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  Innovation 2019 kicks off with five key lessons on policymaking

  At the first session of the Innovation 2019 conference on Thursday, civil service leaders from three countries identified five key changes that they believe could boost innovation in policy making.

  • Posted February 28, 2019
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