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Data, Analytics and AI

Accelerating Data and Automation Transformation in the Public Service

When it comes to data verification, there are essential “three possible ways of proving who I say I am: through something I have, like a document or a card; through something that I know, like a name or a password; or through who I am, like fingerprints or facial recognition.” Biometrics is related to the third of these options, and there are a number of reasons why biometrics is the preferred option. Without biometrics, the verification of identity can be time-consuming and often has to be conducted “in service centres in-person.” On top of that, “the transaction is cumbersome both …
Accelerating Data and Automation Transformation in the Public Service
Australia 7 Apr 2022
Industry Trends
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Workforce, Skills and Capability

Future of Learning and Development Insights

As such, the only way to embed L&D is through continuous and ongoing learning. At the APSC they are “adopting a continuous learning model to enable our workforce to build the critical capabilities needed to do their best work today, and the ability to learn and adapt at the speed of change.” At ESTA, Shannon Pigram says that they too are adopting an ongoing learning approach. It is about “ensuring that there are constant conversations about it and that little challenges that occur with a number of little initiatives. We then look at leveraging those against our existing workflow and …
Future of Learning and Development Insights
Australia 5 Apr 2022
Industry Trends
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Data, Analytics and AI

Data Visualisation and Dashboards Techniques

As an example, many people will know the colours of Google even if they don’t see the word spelled out, and they will know the font of Disney even if it is used to write something else. A lot of these kinds of brands are ingrained in our minds because they use all four elements and because “everything that we consume visually makes use of those well-known attributes within our brains.” In an organisation like the Inland Revenue Department there are four factors that have been included in the style guide, “though more elements can be added in there.” These …
Data Visualisation and Dashboards Techniques
New Zealand 4 Apr 2022
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Workforce, Skills and Capability

Adapting to Drive Organisational Change

At our first HR & Future of Work National Insights Virtual Event, Paul Wilding, Director of Employee Relations, Department of Education explored: Since the start of the pandemic, in particular, the concept of well-being has been bandied about across all levels of the media, the government, and the community. But why is it important in a workplace context, and how should it be applied? These are some of the questions that have been bothering Paul Wilding, the Director of Employee Relations at the Department of Education in Western Australia. In a word, he says that well-being “is really about flourishing. …
Adapting to Drive Organisational Change
Australia 4 Apr 2022
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Cyber Security and Risk Management

New Ways to look at Cyber Vigilance

The problem though, especially from a cyber security perspective, is that the organisation has already been set up so “we are building the house while we’re living in it.” This is especially challenging since because of COVID-19 “we’ve compressed seven years of technological investment into two.” The pandemic has meant that “the concept of work has changed forever,” whilst the impact has been “profound on all of us, individually, collectively and organisationally.” Yet at the end of the day, people and organisations are mostly concerned by what all the chaos and confusion means for them. The “culture of vigilance” needs …
New Ways to look at Cyber Vigilance
Australia 1 Apr 2022
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Improving Communities Through Agile Local Government

Overall, their area was only mildly affected by the pandemic, but given where they are located, “locals are used to isolation and dealing with prolonged periods of loss of power.” The saying goes that “if you move to the Gulf, bring a generator.” When there is a storm, flooding or other crises, it is not uncommon for some communities to be “cut off for 10 to 14 days, but food and supplies are always available.” Partly this is because Council is responsible for supplies. There is a network of “1,662km of local roads but only 107km of these are sealed …
Improving Communities Through Agile Local Government
Australia 1 Apr 2022
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Workforce, Skills and Capability

Spotlight Interview: Jessica Bensel, CHRO, U.S. Department of Commerce - Federal HR Insights

I am the Director for the Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM) and the Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO) for the Department of Commerce. I inform the Deputy Secretary of Commerce on all things Human Capital. My office is the strategic arm for the Department – working in Learning and Development, ER/LR, talent services, accountability, risk, safety, health, executive resources, succession planning, and more. I also teach undergraduate classes for UMGC in HR – have for over ten years now. I came to DOC in September. Prior to being at DOC, I was at DHS/USCIS and before that at the …
Spotlight Interview: Jessica Bensel, CHRO, U.S. Department of Commerce - Federal HR Insights
United States 1 Apr 2022
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Cyber Security and Risk Management

5 Inter-Related Takeaways of Data & Risks

The last couple of years since the start of the pandemic have seen an increase in the types and number of cyber security threats, but also in the brazenness of the attacks. Some of the breaches have cost not just money, but reputational damage as well, whilst others have cost jobs. These …
5 Inter-Related Takeaways of Data & Risks
Australia 30 Mar 2022
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