Posts tagged ‘Public sector’
Issues, Public sector, Public sector reform: Public service for the future: Bernard Le Masson interview
Monday, October 29th, 2012Bernard Le Masson, Accenture’s Global Managing Director of Health and Public Service, met with Owen McQuade during a recent visit to Dublin to discuss how public services are being transformed and the levers for the successful delivery in the future. Bernard Le Masson starts by detailing the trends that have permanently transformed the delivery of public services: “A world that is increasingly multi-polarised, the rising of the middle class in the emerging economies and the increasing pace of urbanisation. As a result, the fundamentals of public service have permanently...[full story]
Innovation, Public sector, Reform: A single view of reform
Friday, August 31st, 2012Eight months after the Public Service Reform Plan, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Secretary General Robert Watt and Assistant Secretary Paul Reid discuss progress with Owen McQuade. “The demand for public services is greater than ever,” reports Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In order to achieve sustained reform of the Public Service (i.e. the Civil Service and public service agencies such as An Garda Síochana, the HSE and local government), business practices must be altered as well as the way in which the Civil Service...[full story]
Innovation, Public sector: Analytics: a local and global opportunity
Friday, August 31st, 2012Big data analytics provide the Government with an opportunity to turn data into knowledge that will enable better decision-making while providing opportunities for jobs and growth. SAS Ireland’s John Farrelly, Emmet Dowling and David Ferguson tell eolas about some of the factors supporting this opportunity, including the key role education has to play. Analytics presents a unique opportunity for Ireland Inc., both in an operational context and for policy making, SAS Ireland’s Public Sector Client Director Emmet Dowling contends. The increasing volume of available data generated and...[full story]
Public sector, Reform, Technology: Next steps to the cloud
Friday, August 31st, 2012Cloud computing is not yet mature enough for use in government but the Public Service is preparing for its eventual implementation. Government strategies often declare themselves to be the last word in policy: the completion of a round of research, discussions and consultations. Not so with the cloud computing strategy which sees itself as part of a bigger conversation where the Government has no “monopoly on good ideas”. The implication is that the sector must continuously innovate and improve, as part of the drive to make Ireland a world leader in cloud computing. Suggestions...[full story]
Innovation, Public sector: Deeper reform
Friday, August 31st, 2012The Government’s reform programme must “go deeper” than previous change initiatives. Accountability and buy-in from secretaries general is essential, Trinity College academic Joe McDonagh tells Meadhbh Monahan. In order to examine the current reform programme as outlined in the November 2011 Public Service Reform Plan, one must look at the outcomes of historical reform programmes, Associate Professor of Business and Information Technology at Trinity College, Joe McDonagh tells eolas. The modernisation unit in the Department of the Taoiseach drove the reform agenda in the 1990s,...[full story]
ICT, Innovation, Public sector, Reform: Progressing the reform agenda
Friday, August 31st, 2012Tim Duggan tells Meadhbh Monahan how the e-government and cloud computing strategies form the primary focus of the Public Service’s ICT agenda and that buy-in from officials should ensure effective reform. “The big trends in IT in the public service include cloud computing, mobile computing, greater electronic delivery of services, and shared approaches. Both the e-government and cloud computing strategies have those themes at their cores,” Tim Duggan tells eolas. Duggan is Assistant Secretary with responsibility for the Centre for Management and Organisation Development (CMOD)...[full story]
Innovation, Public sector: NALA: Be more effective: use plain English
Friday, August 31st, 2012NALA’s Plain English Editing and Training Service can help you Are you confusing the public because of complicated literature and jargon? Most of us don’t like reading through long passages of difficult text to find the main points so why ask others to do so? Plain English can help because clearer information is more likely to save time, money and possible frustration from making repeated requests for information or clarifying misunderstandings. For information about NALA’s Plain English Editing and Training Service and for free information on writing in plain English go to onto...[full story]
Public sector: Delivering in a crisis: Pierce Martin
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Pierce Martin contends that the effective risk management and communication is central to delivering a successful public policy agenda. It takes a crisis to expose the cracks and fault lines of any man-made construct and nowhere is this more evident than when a modern economy is shaken to its very foundations. Today’s modern economies the world over, democratic and other, are driven by strong public policy agendas, increasingly interdependent. It is a feature common to the development of civil society. And when public policy fails it has serious consequences for the economy and every...[full story]
