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2010 IPAA National Conference Bringing It Together. “Day One in Review” Evert Lindquist ANU/ANZSOG/ UVic Adelaide, South Australia 22 October 2010. Bringing It Together Making Collaboration Work. Concepts and Practice Comparative Perspectives National Health Reform Water Security
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2010 IPAA National ConferenceBringing It Together “Day One in Review” Evert Lindquist ANU/ANZSOG/UVic Adelaide, South Australia 22 October 2010
Bringing It TogetherMaking Collaboration Work Concepts and Practice Comparative Perspectives National Health Reform Water Security Civil Society Social Inclusion Remote Services Physical Infrastructure Community Development Intergovernmental Frameworks Whose Buck is it Anyway? Responsibilities The Buck Stops Where? Accountability New Technology Virtual Delivery and New Social Media Service Delivery Using the Bucks Effectively Sharing Responsibilities Making it Happen or Passing the Buck?
Key Issues, Tensions, Dimensions • Collaborative benefits vs. process/time costs • Front-line perspectives vs. apex of government • Management discipline vs. political imperative • Hard infrastructure vs. wicked challenges • Urban challenges vs. remote challenges • Project management vs. emotional intelligence • Relationship-building vs. public sector mobility • Personal interaction vs. technology enhanced • Building capacity “in” vs. building it “out” • Essential, consequential vs. tick-box, symbolic Did any of you have a sense of “deja vu”?
Collaboration can involve such a wide array of possibilities and circumstances that it becomes bewildering to think about. Can we find another vantage point? Public Management and/or Governance Challenge
Moving to a Governance Perspective • Always recognize that in Westminster systems to collaborate is like “pulling against gravity” • Moving from PM perspective to governance think suggests these kinds of questions: • What does more collaborative activity mean on a government-wide basis (beyond projects)? • How can the centre and agency executives be more strategic and selective about collaboration? • How much skill and talent do we really have to develop in order foster sufficient collaboration? • Do we have sufficient opportunities and concepts for sharing and learning from experience?