Cross-agency collaboration in New Zealand offers insights for US feds

Federal Times: Collectively prioritized targets, cascading collaboration, focusing on progress over time rather than transaction costs and promoting transparency can benefit government engagement and public trust, according to a new report.

A case study on cross-agency collaboration in New Zealand looks at the approach, framework and results of the initiative and offers practical insights that could be helpful to the United States government as it moves forward.

The IBM Center for The Business of Government report — authored by Rodney Scott of the University of New South Wales and Ross Boyd of the State Services Commission of New Zealand — surveys the 2012 system the New Zealand government instituted to overcome the challenges of collaboration between single-purpose agencies.

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