Assignment Task
Overview
Your task in this assignment is to write a report advising the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) on how to improve public sector leadership, risk and change management in light of the findings of the Robodebt Royal Commission.
Background (why am I doing this?)
This is an opportunity for you to apply the learning across the unit and demonstrate your competency in using systems thinking to promote institutional learning from past mistakes.
Instructions (what do I have to do?)
- Genevieve Bell writes: will need to remember and be reminded that every system has a history and set of reasons it came to be that way. Knowing how to ask about the boundaries of a system, its interdependencies and affordances are critical skills; as is being able to determine who is erased or rendered mute or invisible in a system.’
- Drawing on your learning across this unit as a whole, identify lessons from the Robodebt Royal Commission about risk management and change management in the APS as a system, especially in relation to the outsourcing of public service advice to private sector consultants?
- What from that system in the past has been lost and could be restored,
- what new investments in renewal could be made, and
- what new measures could be taken, to improve public sector leadership, risk and change management in light of Robodebt?
Drawing on your learning across this unit as a whole, identify lessons from the Robodebt Royal Commission about risk management and change management in the APS as a system, especially in relation to the outsourcing of public service advice to private sector consultants? What fr
