Decision-making in the public sector can be paralyzing. You have to decide on complex issues, under uncertainty and limited by several restrictions (time, money, politics, etc.). This blog summarizes some practical tools to help you think clearly from Dan Levy’s new book Maxims for Thinking Analytically: The wisdom of legendary Harvard Professor Richard Zeckhauser.
Have you ever faced a situation where there’s a problem and you've rushed to solve it? That urgency to act can turn into your curse. This blog gives an example of what this looks like in the real world, with an example from the United Kingdom regarding COVID-19 testing.
How do you get a decision-maker’s attention? This blog gives you three keys to help you sell your ideas to decision-makers effectively and achieve results. You can also download the cheatsheet with the key points.
There are many challenges in promoting government digitization. As governments feel a mounting pressure to deliver new services seamlessly, fast, and conveniently, public sector leaders will play an increasingly pivotal role in catalyzing the required technological transformations to meet citizens’ demands. These four benefits that technology can bring to government.
Delivery Units were established under the mandate of moving the pieces of the management cycle: using data in a centralized way to understand the past and identify future trends, and monitoring government priorities to identify bottlenecks and support more efficient decision-making. What has been the balance of this experience so far in Latin America?
I recently did a study about the social impacts of COVID-19 in the Pacific, which made me think of some of the lessons the pandemic has given us for policy implementation. In this blog, I share 3 of those lessons and my own reflection.
Do you ever wish you could erase your mistakes and start over? In this blog, I talk about 3 mistakes you want to avoid in project implementation in the public sector. Use it as a checklist to stay away, or at least learn faster, from them. You'll also find 3 questions you can ask yourself that will help you get back on track.
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