I’ve been working with governments and international organisations for nearly a decade. In that time, I’ve observed a persistent problem in how the public sector thinks about and does strategy. Dedicated public servants step into strategic leadership roles and are given strategy frameworks and concepts that feel … off. Why do these conventional ways of doing strategy feel off in the public sector? Because the commonplace strategic frameworks originate from empirical studies conducted ma...| Vaughn Tan
At a recent UNDP event on increasing government efficiency and digitalization, I spoke to representatives across a country’s government about how public institutions can — and should — navigate an increasingly uncertain world. tl;dr: We should not be trying to build hyper-efficient public sector organisations that spend their time making rigid, non-adaptable, long-term plans. What the public sector needs is efficacy (not just efficiency) and non-wasteful slack that can adapt and be rede...| Vaughn Tan