All posts tagged "Productivity"

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  Responding to Covid-19: A public sector guide to continuity planning

  Before the start of the COVID pandemic, the capabilities of cloud computing and ERP platforms were already maturing fast. This was hastening adoption among public sector organizations, which need to

  • Posted June 5, 2020
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  US federal CIO signals long-term shift away from face-to-face meetings

  US federal bodies are likely to redesign their “physical footprint” in the light of COVID-19, the federal chief information officer of the United States has said, arguing that “in the

  • Posted May 26, 2020
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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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  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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  Know your team: using data to drive staff engagement

  Disconnected systems and inconsistent information make it difficult for HR teams to keep pace with growth and change. But sophisticated tools that pool data into a single platform can offer

  • Posted February 28, 2020
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  Transformation journey: from digitally challenged to digitally savvy

  As anyone in government knows, implementing a digital transformation strategy can be fraught with difficulty, especially when there are legacy systems to contend with. Tourism NI – the body responsible

  • Posted January 10, 2020
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  Singapore AI strategy signals launch of dedicated unit

  The Singapore government is to create a dedicated AI unit to develop policy and create new project partnerships, under a national AI strategy launched this month. According to the Smart

  • Posted November 25, 2019
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  Why we get it wrong: former UK Treasury chief on the dangerous power of economic orthodoxies

  Reviewing a century of economic crises, former HMT permanent secretary Nick Macpherson sees a common thread: having bought into an economic model, policymakers cling to it long after the world

  • Posted October 18, 2019
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  The productivity problem: causes, consequences and cures

  Poor productivity hampers wage growth, stoking public dissatisfaction. As delegates heard at the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, this is a decades-old problem with complex roots – and one demanding

  • Posted September 26, 2019
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  The roots of risk: how economic imbalances are poisoning politics

  Gathering in Paris for the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, finance department leaders from 10 countries debated the political risks threatening economic growth – and their roots in rising inequality,

  • Posted September 12, 2019
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