Public Sector Futures: Four Propositions

These are the four propositions that we will be voting on, and discussing, at the Nobel Public Services Summit next week.  You don't need to be there to 'vote' or to comment - feel free to add yur thoughts and responses...

1

The worst case scenario for the public service in the next 20 years is a slow and steady decline in the face of too many complex problems.

2

Public sector renewal will call on new values needed for of an effective public service – orchestration, risk-taking and innovation, responsiveness and system thinking.

3

The best “futures” scenarios for the public sector involve disruptive and dramatic change to the basic operating model of the traditional public sector.  Incremental reforms won’t be enough.

4

Most of the ideas, and much of the work, that are needed to confront the big public challenges will not come from within the public sector.