Fit for purpose..the machine is broken
This might be one for my UK colleagues in the first instance. A new report from UK public sector think tank REFORM suggests that the Whitehall bureaucracy is no longer 'fit for purpose'. This is an extract from its executive summary: The systemic weaknesses in Whitehall have built up over the years and are now of critical proportions...the reasons for this are entrenched – the culture and structure of Whitehall rewards risk avoidance and punishes innovation. One public se...