IPAA  SA places a large focus on strategic forums and events, and therefore are excited to announce the launching of a new series proudly supported by Wallmans Lawyers. The new series is titled ‘Inside the Project- Examining the Challenges, Risks and Processes inside some of SA’s biggest economic projects’. These will be informal interview/panel type sessions, where senior Public Sector Leaders are interviewed about a specific project and provide the opportunity for State Government employee audience members to gain exclusive access to ‘the inside story’ of a project.

Our first guest for the ‘Inside the Project’ is John Hanlon, Chief Executive, Renewal SA, who joins us to discuss the Riverbank project with our audience.

In the final issue of Public Administration Today ideas around ‘productivity’ were explored. This edition featured articles from notable sector thought leaders on insights across performance, innovation and the relation to productivity. Articles included:

• Important to distinguish between productivity and efficiency: Terry Moran on public service productivity pg 04
• Productivity ‘product’ crisis: Doug McTaggart poses some penetrating questions about whether the public sector can
  improve its productivity without a better understanding of consumers and what they want. pg 06-07
• Productivity Paradox: Janine O’Flynn says looking more broadly to a range of measures of ‘performance’ is much
  more practical and meaningful than a never-ending quest for (the paradox of) ‘productivity’. pg 08-09
• Authentic Productivity: Renu Agarwa, Christopher Bajada,  Paul J Brown, and Roy Green examine why current productivity approaches fail us. pg 10-13

To read the full edition see below…

IPAA SA, in conjunction with the Office for the Public Sector, presented A Modern Public Sector – The Reform Agenda. The forum was hosted by Chief Executive, Kym Winter-Dewhirst from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

Kym shared his vision about future transformation and reform that will help build a modern public sector. The event aimed to inform public sector employees about why public sector reform is needed, what the reform initiatives are trying to achieve, and how the Department of the Premier and Cabinet aims to reach those outcomes.

The audience also learned how Kym’s background has helped inform the reform agenda, and how they can play a part in building an even better public sector.

Erma Ranieri, Commissioner for Public Sector Employment was the MC for the forum.