There is a very prevalent thought process that runs through gov'ts.....all of them. I call it OPM. Other people's money. Meaning they have no skin in the game for spending foolishly, lazily or just plain following what has always been done without question. If their internet bill went up 3% a year over year they would howl or start looking for alternatives. An ethos needs to be developed in gov't to continually improve whatever process they do. Gov'ts are excellent at status quo or worse.
May I suggest looking at Blockchain technology.. apply a little innovation & by then all three level of government & you end up with how Canada was designed to work. Based on sustainablity principles. $$ no longer at the head of the table applying a Gold Rush driven GDP.,but the ability to do more good than harm. Most do not know. When the young and unemployed of Ottawa were helping developing it. Based on applying innovation & community collaboration. Starting in 1995 to deal with the 1998 economic down turn reality. $$ could not fix. The rest is recorded history. If you know were to look.
Unfortunately from what I see . They are looking to those that as long as I been involved in change. Always stated to me. We understand we need change. Just as long as what you change has no impact on what I do or how I do it & the financial benefits to me & my support system. Which after COVID &the realities of COVID & Mother Nature in renewal on a Global scale. $$ fOR as important has it is. Is not the key to a sustainable future. That 5 decades fixing what the expert with $$ screwed up, but could not fix with $$,but required what I was a natural born Innovator,administrator & analyst. Had to apply innovation & community collaboration . To not change what $$ did but why it created an unsustainable future, but apply sustainablity principle. Based on economic & business 101 sustainability principles. If you donot understand what they are. You need to go back to school. Then comes the hard part now or later. It depend on how much damage you have already done to your communities economic future& with it piss off your kids.especially in. Canada a country with a 200 yr recorded history. It’s better to work with us than think you can force us to do anything. that not in the best interest of all the global community. By giving the working class a means to not follow what the privileged few want & can get. That at sometime well only piss of the working class attached to innovator that have a200 yr history of taking on the $$ boys & welling to lose in order to force change. Our present “Tide of Change “ started over two decades ago. Our next PM who ever he is can become part of the”Tide of Change” to bring the Global community into the 21st century. How that going to happen. Is in play now. The old trying to stayin the past by any means, pissing off the young ready to come into a Star Trek (1968) sustainable global federation. So we can become mature enough as a Global community to be allowed to explore the stars. As we are not alone. Only an ignorent person would not understand why. Going to be an interesting decade. As Change is always a bitch, but if done right require change by applying innovation and community collaboration. Alway giving the community not what they want, but what is require to be sustainable, dealing with Mother Nature also in renewal on a Global scale. It no longer about $$ but problem solving. At the foundation on a Global scale applying collaboration. Does require a Star Trek (1968) federation. Vision.
Over time, the largest problem is treating everything as a “do the minimum to meet immediate needs”. This leads to endless patching, vs replacement which costs more long term. And on fundamental changes, with LRT as the core of Ottawa’s long term transportation network, not doing a full understanding of where Ottawa will be 50 years from now has led to the current LRT, which was obsolete the day COVID hit, overly focused on Ottawa’s previous success using transit as express commuting service to Downtown vs. a general transportation network serving anywhere to anywhere.
How can the City make strategic cuts when they have no idea of its true headcount. Lack of governance and adherence to position management policies/procedures, audit/Council directives, makes for creative accounting when it comes to: FTE counts, temporary positions, hiring practices etc. HR/Finance abandoned any efforts re governance thanks to “empire building” by GMs and endless “exceptions”. Take a good look at how top heavy City is Associate GMs, Associate Directors, Managers that don’t meet span of control requirements. It’s all about who you know, vs what you know - at the expense of service delivery and our tax payer dollars.
There is a very prevalent thought process that runs through gov'ts.....all of them. I call it OPM. Other people's money. Meaning they have no skin in the game for spending foolishly, lazily or just plain following what has always been done without question. If their internet bill went up 3% a year over year they would howl or start looking for alternatives. An ethos needs to be developed in gov't to continually improve whatever process they do. Gov'ts are excellent at status quo or worse.
May I suggest looking at Blockchain technology.. apply a little innovation & by then all three level of government & you end up with how Canada was designed to work. Based on sustainablity principles. $$ no longer at the head of the table applying a Gold Rush driven GDP.,but the ability to do more good than harm. Most do not know. When the young and unemployed of Ottawa were helping developing it. Based on applying innovation & community collaboration. Starting in 1995 to deal with the 1998 economic down turn reality. $$ could not fix. The rest is recorded history. If you know were to look.
Unfortunately from what I see . They are looking to those that as long as I been involved in change. Always stated to me. We understand we need change. Just as long as what you change has no impact on what I do or how I do it & the financial benefits to me & my support system. Which after COVID &the realities of COVID & Mother Nature in renewal on a Global scale. $$ fOR as important has it is. Is not the key to a sustainable future. That 5 decades fixing what the expert with $$ screwed up, but could not fix with $$,but required what I was a natural born Innovator,administrator & analyst. Had to apply innovation & community collaboration . To not change what $$ did but why it created an unsustainable future, but apply sustainablity principle. Based on economic & business 101 sustainability principles. If you donot understand what they are. You need to go back to school. Then comes the hard part now or later. It depend on how much damage you have already done to your communities economic future& with it piss off your kids.especially in. Canada a country with a 200 yr recorded history. It’s better to work with us than think you can force us to do anything. that not in the best interest of all the global community. By giving the working class a means to not follow what the privileged few want & can get. That at sometime well only piss of the working class attached to innovator that have a200 yr history of taking on the $$ boys & welling to lose in order to force change. Our present “Tide of Change “ started over two decades ago. Our next PM who ever he is can become part of the”Tide of Change” to bring the Global community into the 21st century. How that going to happen. Is in play now. The old trying to stayin the past by any means, pissing off the young ready to come into a Star Trek (1968) sustainable global federation. So we can become mature enough as a Global community to be allowed to explore the stars. As we are not alone. Only an ignorent person would not understand why. Going to be an interesting decade. As Change is always a bitch, but if done right require change by applying innovation and community collaboration. Alway giving the community not what they want, but what is require to be sustainable, dealing with Mother Nature also in renewal on a Global scale. It no longer about $$ but problem solving. At the foundation on a Global scale applying collaboration. Does require a Star Trek (1968) federation. Vision.
Over time, the largest problem is treating everything as a “do the minimum to meet immediate needs”. This leads to endless patching, vs replacement which costs more long term. And on fundamental changes, with LRT as the core of Ottawa’s long term transportation network, not doing a full understanding of where Ottawa will be 50 years from now has led to the current LRT, which was obsolete the day COVID hit, overly focused on Ottawa’s previous success using transit as express commuting service to Downtown vs. a general transportation network serving anywhere to anywhere.
How can the City make strategic cuts when they have no idea of its true headcount. Lack of governance and adherence to position management policies/procedures, audit/Council directives, makes for creative accounting when it comes to: FTE counts, temporary positions, hiring practices etc. HR/Finance abandoned any efforts re governance thanks to “empire building” by GMs and endless “exceptions”. Take a good look at how top heavy City is Associate GMs, Associate Directors, Managers that don’t meet span of control requirements. It’s all about who you know, vs what you know - at the expense of service delivery and our tax payer dollars.