All posts tagged "Reform"

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  ‘The question is not is the civil service fit for purpose, it’s is government fit for purpose’: how officials and ministers can work together

  The relationship between civil servants and ministers is in the headlines in the UK like never before. At a Global Government Forum webinar, experts discussed the cause of the breakdown

  • Posted June 21, 2023
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  ‘Empowering people with a sense of possibility’: GGF’s Leading Questions podcast with New Zealand’s former public service chief Iain Rennie

  Global Government Forum’s latest Leading Questions podcast features Iain Rennie, whose decades-long public service career culminated in eight years as New Zealand’s state services commissioner. In this episode, Iain tells

  • Posted June 1, 2023
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  Ministers need to better understand the tension between urgency and realism in government if they want to deliver

  Failures in government policy delivery are often blamed on civil servants. But, in the second of two articles for Global Government Forum, Andrew Kakabadse, professor of governance and leadership at

  • Posted May 29, 2023
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  Is dealing with aggressive ministers now the reality for UK civil servants?

  Aggressive ‘Raab-like’ behaviour is endemic in the ministerial environment and, if it continues, we cannot expect the civil service to continue displaying unquestionable devotion to duty, says Andrew Kakabadse, professor

  • Posted May 16, 2023
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  Australia appoints new public service commissioner

  Gordon de Brouwer has been appointed Australian Public Service commissioner and will start his five-year term on 11 May, the federal government has announced. The economist, academic and public servant

  • Posted May 10, 2023
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  ‘Serve your country – you will never regret it’: listen to GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with the White House’s Noreen Hecmanczuk

  In the first of our Leading Questions podcasts to feature an American federal government leader, Noreen Hecmanczuk reflects on a long and diverse career in public service – a career

  • Posted May 4, 2023
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  UK civil service review to call for more ‘robust culture’ after Raab resignation

  A government-commissioned review of the UK civil service is set to call for greater ministerial involvement in the appointment of top officials, with Singapore and France among the nations that

  • Posted April 24, 2023
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  ‘Unless you fight for it, it’s not worth it once you get there’: Exclusive podcast with South Africa’s cabinet secretary Phindile Baleni

  Series 3 of Global Government Forum’s Leading Questions starts off with a bang – our first interview for the podcast with a serving cabinet secretary: Phindile Baleni, South Africa’s secretary

  • Posted March 30, 2023
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  Finding your identity: how three governments are developing digital ID

  Digital ID is an essential building block for rapid progress on transforming public services – but only a handful of governments have launched effective, popular systems. At the Global Government

  • Posted March 23, 2023
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  Innovation 2023 five minutes with… Megan Lee Devlin of the UK’s Central Digital and Data Office

  In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders that will be speaking at our free Innovation conference. Taking place

  • Posted March 19, 2023
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