"What are we doing today Brain? Taking over the world like we always do."
I don’t have nearly enough time to blog these days, but I am doing a bunch of writing for university. I decided I would publish a selection of the (hopefully) more interesting essays that people might find interesting 🙂 Please note, my academic writing is pretty awful, but hopefully some of the ideas, research and … Continue reading “Essays: Improving the Public Policy Cycle Model”
After a short sabbatical from public service, I’m delighted to announce I’m returning to the Australian Public Service, where I intend to do my part in the extraordinary and once-in-a-generation reform agenda currently under way 😊 I have had wonderful opportunities over the past 23 years to work with and in the public sector, but … Continue reading “A thank you and a return to service”
This post was written to follow The case for adaptive and end-to-end policy management, which explored the challenges and opportunities for reforming how we design, delivery, manage and continuously improve policies. This article explores the idea of “policy infrastructure” and why a rethink is needed to enable end-to-end policy management with impact monitoring and policy … Continue reading “The case for shared & end-to-end policy infrastructure”
TL;DR: Better policy design and evaluation won’t save us 🙂 The APS Reform agenda provides a rare window of opportunity to address structural and systemic issues in the APS, so why not explore how might we transform the way policy is designed, delivered and managed end to end? Why should we reform how we do … Continue reading “The case for adaptive and end-to-end policy management”
In government we often speak about policy levers, but in the real world, a lever without a fulcrum is just a plank of wood. Levers are needed to lift a load, but without a fulcrum, you can’t move it very far. Fulcrums are needed to dramatically increase the impact of a lever without having to … Continue reading “Five fulcrums for fundamental public sector reform”
In designing an ambitious Government as a Platform approach, we need to consider what sort of future we want to have. This is an ambitious and optimistic future state story about regulation in the digital age which was used for FWD50 2021 to explore Gov as a Platform frameworks. Such stories provide a light on … Continue reading “GaaP for future state digital regulation”
Background: When I got back to Aotearoa, having worked in NSW and Canadian Governments in the interim, I thought it might be helpful to share some insights and comparison of the service delivery models of Service NSW, Service Canada and the New Zealand Government. My goal was to share what truly integrated services can look … Continue reading “Trust, truth & authenticity (in Aotearoa NZ)”
On the eve of moving to Ottawa to join the Service Canada team (squee!) I thought it would be helpful to share a few things for posterity. There are three things below: Some observations that might be useful A short overview of the Pia Review: 20 articles about digital public sector reform Additional references I … Continue reading “A quick reflection on digital for posterity”
This methodology was originally developed by the Hon Kate Lundy and myself (archived here in 2010) for openly and collaboratively developing policy with the public, for better outcomes. It was used for 4 different consultations, all at a national level. It was very early days for this type of public engagement, and we didn’t get to … Continue reading “Public Spheres”
This is part of a book I am working on, hopefully due for completion by early 2017. The purpose of the book is to explore where we are at, where we are going, and how we can get there, in the broadest possible sense. Â It is in “stream of consciousness” phase so your comments, feedback … Continue reading “How we got here, Chapter 1: Clever Monkeys”