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What influential voices have to say about the APS review
The Australian Government has established an independent review to ensure the Australian Public Service (APS) is fit-for-purpose in the coming decades. The Chair of the APS review panel, David Thodey, has stated the APS doesn’t need fixing—it isn’t broken.
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Blockchain: great hope or great hype?
Nexus recently attended a seminar on blockchain technology, which is a type of digital distribution ledger or database that contains a record of every transaction at every stage of the supply chain. It is decentralised, with no single owner of the data (such as a bank or government agency).
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20 years of change in the public sector
In 1996, Nexus Management was established, providing consulting services to government, not-for-profit organisations and universities across Australia. It was the year John Howard was elected to replace Paul Keating as Prime Minister and Morris Iemma was NSW Premier. Since that time, we’ve had five Prime Ministers (six, if you count Rudd twice) and five NSW Premiers, though none who have served longer than Iemma’s three years and 33 days.
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Strategy and the right (part of the) brain
We explored the concept of strategy as an art rather than a science in another blog (see here) and this raises the question of left and right brain thinking in management. Management guru Henry Mintzberg looks at the role both hemispheres…