Governance and accountability
Preventing and detecting fraud: are you staying ahead of the game?
It’s Fraud Awareness Week. Now’s a good time for leaders to check whether they’re as prepared as they could and should be…
People matter: trust and risk
At my son’s football match, I watched from the side line along with other parents, who were becoming increasingly unhappy as their sons in opposing teams tested each other.
Data and integrity
Baking in integrity to make public services that are sure to rise
Brand upon the brain – protecting New Zealand’s global reputation
It’s not every day that a conversation about how we all can protect, and create advantage from, New Zealand’s global reputation leaves a group of people animated and full of pride – but it should be.
Responding to the Panama Papers
Or, how a mild-mannered accountant helped protect New Zealand’s economy
Back at number one and it’s personal
“Putting people first in maintaining integrity” was a theme in Lyn Provost’s last speech as Auditor-General at the fifth Transparency International Leaders Integrity Forum last week.
The trust paradox
Reconciling security and privacy may be the issue of the decade, senior leaders of public agencies attending the fourth Transparency International Leaders Integrity Forum were told last month.
Quick as a whistle insight to improve whistleblowing
New Zealand is served by a public sector that is considered worldwide to have high standards of integrity.
Performance reporting – why is it important?
The wealth of mediaeval English monarchs, the spoils from the age of exploration and conquest, the wealth creation of the new middle classes in the industrial revolution… What have these got to do ...
I’ll settle for second best. Yeah right.
A relative in Hawaii recently asked me what it was like to live in New Zealand. My reply? “I love it – can’t complain”. But should I?
