When Iceland introduced crowdsourcing to its policymaking it reversed an engagement recession. Beyond representing an ideal in transparency and open government, the process delivered concrete policy outcomes.
David Hazlehurst and Martin Bowles have launched Innovation Month, with a packed schedule of events across the country. Plus five key leadership behaviours to help foster innovation.
Melbourne School of Government director Helen Sullivan takes on a new challenge running ANU's venerable Crawford School of Public Policy. She tells The Mandarin why public policy is increasingly a global system.
SPEECH: Victoria's top public servant finds lessons for the future in one of our greatest public policy achievements. Success starts with a moral purpose and realistic goal-setting, latest technology, diverse teams and engagement.
Australia lags nations like the US and UK in data-driven policy design and harnessing public data for business. So how can agencies build a passion around data analytics to better serve citizens?
SPEECH: Dr Tim Soutphommasane reflects on Brexit and increasing reliance on KPIs and big data for moral guidance. Respect is squandered when leaders resort to the enervating strictures of managerialism.
The Department of Health secretary shows off his Machiavellian side with the tips and tricks of getting people to do what you need done. Also, navigate your agency's path when external forces drag you in all directions.
The NSW Treasury secretary addresses why the efficiency dividend never goes away, even during surpluses and record investment in services. The public sector wage cap may need to come down even further too.
Two years ago, the Department of Health was a reliable machine, but staff were run ragged and working to outdo each other instead of looking at the big picture. Now the late nights in the office are a thing of the past.
Victoria's three main integrity agencies agree they need more consistency in their powers and independence from the executive. Ombudsman Deborah Glass also wants the power to investigate serious matters.
Public sector commissions are looking at how future entry to the public service will change. Beyond graduate programs, should government introduce students to the public service earlier, preparing them to navigate workplace issues?
What does radical incrementalism really mean? Whose job is it to defend the public service? What can you do if you have an ethical crisis working on current government policy? DFAT's boss answers burning questions from APS.
Improving whole-of-government use of data will lead to better policy and services — but co-operation is needed to find hidden data sets, Productivity Commission head Peter Harris tells The Mandarin.
VIDEO: The public service needs to "move away from the tyranny of the current", the DFAT boss emphasised in his valedictory address. Watch the full video of his address to the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
SPEECH: Outgoing DFAT secretary Peter Varghese shared his reflections on more than 38 years as a public servant at the latest IPAA secretaries series event and offered advice to the next generation of public service leaders.
