Co-design can address complex societal problems and drive innovation in the public sector. How can we shift public service design away from an expert-driven process…

‘Why doesn’t the government do something about this?’ is a complaint often heard in legislatures, TV debates, opinion pieces, letters to the editor and cyberspace. …

It is time to move away from the ‘government are from Venus, researchers are from Mars’ narrative. Instead we should focus on the challenges both parties…

Policy entrepreneurs transform policy ideas into policy innovations, disrupting the status quo of existing settings. What makes for effective policy entrepreneurship and what attributes, skills…

Responding to the need for innovation, governments have begun experimenting with ‘design thinking’ approaches to reframe policy issues and generate new policy solutions. But what…

The last decade has seen ongoing issues of gender inequity as well as arguably the golden age of female comics. From Tina Fey and Amy…

Like policy failures, policy successes are in the eye of the beholder. They are not mere facts but stories. To claim a public policy, program…

Victoria’s Special Minister of State and the Victorian Branch Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union jointly announced the Jobs and Skills Exchange (JSE)…

Policy coordination is an age old challenge for government. As the problems confronting governments have become more complex, effective coordination is even more critical.  But…

Lauren Jackson is a Partner at KPMG working in leadership development with a focus on workforce transformation and reskilling at scale. Jackson talks to Maria…

The world of work is changing. Technology, flexibility and the way we think about careers are redefining the workplace. The public service is not immune…

There is a pervasive sense that governments are not doing as well as they should to solve our biggest policy problems. This failure to meet…

A post on the London School of Economics Impact Blog outlined why it is unrealistic for academic research to drive policy change. Yet social and…

Design thinking has become a popular approach for governments seeking to address complex governance challenges. It offers novel techniques and speaks to broader questions of…

In conventional economics, the concept of value creation by the public sector is largely absent. Value is created in business with the state playing a…