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What is a unified public service ?

What is a unified public service ?. Len Cook Former Government Statistician The Public Sector: In the service of the public "New thinking on the public services of New Zealand" Wellington, 5-6 September 2013. A joined up telecom – Hanoi, Vietnam.

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What is a unified public service ?

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  1. What is a unified public service? Len Cook Former Government Statistician The Public Sector: In the service of the public"New thinking on the public services of New Zealand" Wellington, 5-6 September 2013

  2. A joined up telecom – Hanoi, Vietnam

  3. Some universal outcomes expected of governments • Time (foresight, continuity, durability) • Place (global, national, regional, local) • Citizens (future, past and current, generations, life-course stages)

  4. Enduring issues where collective wisdom and experience determine the likelihood of robust policy • The collective management of risk and uncertainty is a critical role of government. • The management of national assets (Environment, Reputation/identity, Integrity of government) • The efficiency and quality of accumulated infrastructures (transport, energy, housing) • Key sectors of government (Justice, Taxation, Education, Health, welfare) • Protecting the functioning of the small NZ economy among the global economy • Ensuring the shared prosperity of citizens • Countering inequalities that really matter

  5. Life Course Influences On Cohort Life Expectancy AGE Estimated Life Expectancy at key stages of life cycle Health events Participation Home ownership Partner history Lifestyle Parents Family arrangements Household stability Structural shifts in jobs Migration Parents Education Lifestyle/ diet Gender equity Relevance of education Parents Wealth accumulation Birth family stability Health / disability Income of birth family Housing/Family Development Lifestyle provision Infancy Education Retirement BIRTHTODEATH EXPERIENCES

  6. Diagnosis of NZ Health Sector 2009 • Insufficient formalised processes for establishing sector outcomes and overseeing the future whole-of-system performance • Absence of an effective governance body to identify core systems, inputs and outputs, and appropriate evaluation methods • Inadequate mechanisms for defining performance expectations for consumers • Inadequate capacity for regular expert review of systems and performance, and defining best practice • Insufficient legal and financial authority for cross-sectoral investment and Governance • Unsatisfactory leadership in the development of whole-of-government systems and leadership skills • Poor encouragement of innovation

  7. Investments fundamental to a public service that necessitate unified leadership • People • Knowledge • Recognition in roles and structures of the authority needed for public service wide, and sector specific systems leadership • New Zealand specific focus • Citizen engagement • Ethics and integrity • The impact of information technology on the production function across key public service sectors

  8. Sources of performance degradation

  9. Comparison of Autonomous Organisation Form with Organisations that are part of an Integrated Networked System

  10. An Ideal model of sector transformation Change in production function Capacity to direct and implement change at level of key sector of public service Cost shifting/ output mix change Cost shifting/ output mixchange

  11. TREVOR MANUEL – SOUTH AFRICA http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=L3Kor38Aczg#t=3

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