All posts tagged "Public Sector"
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‘A rubicon has been crossed’: can the COVID-19 crisis leave an innovation legacy for government?
Government departments have undergone rapid transformation over the course of the pandemic, which could lead to more citizen-centric services. Protecting the public from Covid-19 became the overarching necessity for the
- Posted July 6, 2022
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How to make digital transformation happen in your department in 2022
As a government leader, you know how much effort and focus is needed to make digital transformation happen in the public sector. With demands for digital public services growing, and
- Posted January 18, 2022
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Aye of the needle: overcoming vaccine hesitancy
To end the pandemic, governments must persuade the vast majority of adults to get vaccinated – but apathy, health fears and conspiracy theories are holding down vaccination rates. Liz Heron
- Posted August 26, 2021
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Carbon-free Clouds: sustainability in digital transformations
As civil service bodies move to Cloud-hosted digital services, many assume that their carbon footprints will fall – but not every digital service is more environmentally-friendly than its analogue predecessor,
- Posted August 13, 2021
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Algorithm and blues: avoiding the traps in new tech
Algorithms can be immensely valuable in public services; but as the UK’s ill-judged A-levels algorithm demonstrated, badly designed systems can damage citizens and governments alike. At a recent GGF webinar,
- Posted June 30, 2021
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Nordics lead EU’s innovation league table
An annual exercise to assess which countries in the EU and beyond have created the best environments for innovation across their private and public sectors has hailed Sweden as the
- Posted June 24, 2021
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Singapore chief on the biggest challenges facing civil servants: learning pace and earning faith
Many civil servants responded to the pandemic with enormous speed and innovation – and their populations noticed, said Singapore Civil Service Head Leo Yip at the opening session of the
- Posted April 21, 2021
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Find your northstar: how to build impactful public sector strategies
At a recent PA Consulting webinar, senior UK public servants discussed the lessons they’ve learned from developing and embedding organisational strategies The idea of making long-term plans in the current
- Posted March 23, 2021
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Opinion: the public sector will bear the brunt of Sunak’s push to balance the books
The budget suggests that this government believes it is business who will power the UK’s recovery from COVID-19. But it’s a fair bet that departments will end up feeling the
- Posted March 4, 2021
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Births, deaths and everything in between: designing services around peoples’ lives
At key moments in life, people have enough to be doing without interacting with multiple public services. So governments around the world are connecting systems – making life easier for
- Posted February 24, 2021