Speaking Truth to Power in Government Projects – Without Torching the Outcome
Government is a hierarchical beast – there’s no getting around that. We talk about empowering everyone to be…
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Transformation vs. Delivery in Government: 3 Public Projects That Confused the Two
Transformation always sounds bigger than mere “change.” It suggests a fundamental re-think and re-do of what was there…
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7 Deadly Sins of Back-Office Transformation Failure
Everyone likes to think that their project is unique – but most mistakes in public sector transformation aren’t…
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5 Government Reform Failure Signals You Need To Spot
Everyone seems to always agree that government reform is needed to keep up with a more efficient, digital…
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Why Culture Drives Government Project Failure
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, DOGE, and Why Public Sector Transformation Failure Happens Early
Last week, we covered how Elon Musks’s DOGE public service cuts aren’t just too aggressive – they’re downright…
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How Toxic Leadership Shapes Public Sector Culture and Failure
In toxic leadership cultures — especially in the public sector — employees will behave how senior leaders show…
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The Dashboard Red Flags That Turn Budgets into Illusions
Dashboards are funny things (as we’ve talked about before). On the one hand, they can make an incredibly…
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How Assumptions in Process Mapping Derail Project Delivery
A nice “everyday” kind of project today, one that we can probably all relate to on some level….
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Government System Implementation Failures: When Processes Get Overrun
I think by now we should finally be at the point where we all know that software doesn’t…
