Submitted by cmasingo on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 09:28
Nearly three decades ago, New Zealand pioneered government reforms to make individual single-purpose agencies – a “vertical” solution -- more accountable and effective. While successful, it exacerbated another challenge facing government agencies -- addressing “horizontal” societal problems, i.e., those that span traditional agency boundaries. So, New Zealand undertook a new round of reform in 2012 to address a handful of persistent societal and economic problems by creat