Government for a New Age: The transformation agenda (Thinkers 50 Books) - Hardcover

Michel Khoury; Rabih Abouchakra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908984317 ISBN 13: 9781908984319

Publisher: Infinite Ideas Limited, 2015

Synopsis

What is the role of government in the modern world? The environment that governments operate in today is hugely complex. Governments face difficult challenges on all sides. Global upheavals and geopolitical shifts, climate change, rapidly evolving technologies and socio-economic demographics, resource constraints, an increasingly diverse constituency and citizens more demanding expectations -- these are just some of the forces driving societal changes and transforming the context in which governments operate. Around the world governments are responding to these challenges by shifting the way they think, steer, organize, measure and engage with citizens, and the private and third sector. Until now, though, best practice has remained elusive. Intergovernmental collaboration and sharing of innovative policy making is piecemeal. Government for a New Age brings together the latest thinking on modern government. It sheds light on the current trends in governance practices, operating models, processes and tools that leading governments are embracing. Government for a New Age explores the ways in which governments are changing their value proposition to tackle these pressing concerns and provide some answers to these questions.

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About the Author

Rabih Abouchakra is Managing Director of the Office of Strategic Affairs at the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. Previously, he was a Vice President and Partner of Booz & Company, heading the firm s Organization and Strategy practice in the Middle East and focusing on public administration modernization, policy formulation and large-scale transformation. He is co-author of Leading Smart Transformation: A Roadmap for World Class Government (Palgrave, 2011). Michel Khoury is a Director within the Office of Strategic Affairs at the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. Previously he served as a senior consultant for Booz & Company where he advised on public sector strategy, policy formulation, regulatory reform, organization restructuring and large-scale transformation. Prior to that, he worked for BearingPoint as a consultant in Paris focusing on public sector technology. He is the author of a series of perspective papers covering public sector governance, emerging trends and innovations, citizen engagement, horizon scanning and risk management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Infinite Ideas Limited
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908984317
• ISBN 13: 9781908984319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224