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7 Deadly Sins of Back-Office Transformation Failure

ByMatthew Oleniuk 9 June 20258 June 2025

Everyone likes to think that their project is unique – but most mistakes in public sector transformation aren’t…

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A rural road marked with a “Reform Ahead” warning sign, filled with visible potholes and cracks, symbolizing overlooked risks in government reform efforts.
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5 Government Reform Failure Signals You Need To Spot

ByMatthew Oleniuk 25 May 202525 May 2025

Everyone seems to always agree that government reform is needed to keep up with a more efficient, digital…

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A man presenting a steeply declining graph to smiling colleagues, illustrating cultural blindness to failure in government projects.
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Why Culture Drives Government Project Failure

ByMatthew Oleniuk 18 May 202518 May 2025

When reviewing the post-mortems of government project failure across the globe, some common themes always emerge. But culture…

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Elon Musk on a ladder with a hammer, representing the rushed and surface-level approach behind public sector transformation failure.
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Elon Musk, DOGE, and Why Public Sector Transformation Failure Happens Early

ByMatthew Oleniuk 18 May 202518 May 2025

Last week, we covered how Elon Musks’s DOGE public service cuts aren’t just too aggressive – they’re downright…

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Two professionals in a heated argument across a boardroom table while colleagues look on uncomfortably, illustrating toxic leadership in the public sector and its impact on team dynamics.
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How Toxic Leadership Shapes Public Sector Culture and Failure

ByMatthew Oleniuk 18 May 202529 May 2025

In toxic leadership cultures — especially in the public sector — employees will behave how senior leaders show…

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A contractor holds out his hand while a suited professional shows empty pockets, representing project dashboard red flags and hidden financial risks in project delivery.
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The Dashboard Red Flags That Turn Budgets into Illusions

ByMatthew Oleniuk 17 May 202529 May 2025

Dashboards are funny things (as we’ve talked about before). On the one hand, they can make an incredibly…

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Office professionals using tin cans and string to communicate across a meeting table, illustrating process mapping failures and breakdowns in communication.
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How Assumptions in Process Mapping Derail Project Delivery

ByMatthew Oleniuk 17 May 202529 May 2025

A nice “everyday” kind of project today, one that we can probably all relate to on some level….

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People playing tug of war over labeled process boxes, symbolizing conflict in government system implementation failures.
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Government System Implementation Failures: When Processes Get Overrun

ByMatthew Oleniuk 17 May 202518 May 2025

I think by now we should finally be at the point where we all know that software doesn’t…

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A distorted ruler with scattered numbers, representing confusion in government performance measurement problems.
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The Hidden Cost of Government Performance Measurement Problems

ByMatthew Oleniuk 17 May 202518 May 2025

Maybe I’m the only one who’s noticed this, but it seems to me that lots of politicians like…

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Government Software Usability Failure: The System That Couldn’t Leave HQ

ByMatthew Oleniuk 17 May 202518 May 2025

Remember that whole, “A million monkeys on a million typewriters would eventually produce Shakespeare?” Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?…

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