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 |  | | The case for government transformation | | | Governments can be transformed through IT by reducing cost, improving processes, and innovating new products and services. | Launch this article (PDF – 848 KB) |
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| | | An interview with Harald Lemke | | | If governments are eager to undertake sweeping administrative reforms and to create transparency across levels and agencies, they should appoint a chief information officer. But given that IT strategy always follows business strategy, and the public sector's business is politics, a successful public sector CIO has to be part of the political leadership and requires the ability to make a political case for why IT is important, says Harald Lemke, CIO and permanent secretary in the German state of Hesse. | | Launch this article (PDF – 640 KB) |
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| | | An interview with David Fisher | | | Public-sector entities, like many commercial companies, are increasingly undertaking large transformation programs to streamline and improve core operations. Nowhere is this task more challenging than in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), which is committed to transforming its business practices to support faster and more agile operations. | | Launch this article (PDF – 320 KB) |
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| | Business-based IT architecture:
The business leader’s role in enabling public-sector change | | | There are best practice approaches to creating an agile and flexible IT architecture to improve operational efficiency. | | Launch this article (PDF – 728 KB) |
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| | | IT management with service-oriented architecture | | | Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become a popular guiding philosophy for creating applications and understanding business processes in the private sector. The idea behind SOA is that business processes can be developed as discrete software pieces and then offered to the organization independent of location and platform. Properly applied, SOA offers many advantages for public sector organizations as well. | | Launch this article (PDF – 148 KB) |
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| | | Establishing good IT governance in the public sector | | | Some leadership and IT governance models are better than others to leverage the transformational power of IT and strategies for implementation. | | Launch this article (PDF – 756 KB) |
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| | | IT for emerging markets–commentary | | | In an era when IT has become indispensable for enabling governments to provide better services to the public more effectively, efficiently, and sustainably, IT governance has come to the forefront as a critical capability for public-sector leaders seeking to create and capture IT value. | | Launch this article (PDF – 208 KB) |
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| | | Global trends affecting the public sector | | | In the next decade, the public sector will be shaped by ten global trends affecting governments and companies around the world. | | Launch this article (PDF – 456 KB) |
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| | | Defusing the pension time bomb | | | Governments need to find innovative ways to tackle politically difficult challenges such as those in state pension/social security policy. | | Launch this article (PDF – 152 KB) |
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| | | Three paradigms of public-sector reform | | | How can governments combine equity, diversity, and constantly rising quality in their delivery of public services? | | Launch this article (PDF – 376 KB) |
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| | | Leadership in government: An interview with Robert E. Rubin | | | Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin reflects on leadership in public life and the transition from the private to public sector. | | Launch this article (PDF – 256 MB) |
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| | | Six "must dos" for transforming performance | | | It takes the best people and excellent design to ensure that critical transformations don’t become “yet another change program.” | | Launch this article (PDF – 112 KB) |
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