“The Future of Manufacturing report (April 2012) identified a number of factors that will shape the future of competition between countries and companies. Three areas rose to the top as the most critical: human capital and talent development; innovation and technology advancement; and strategic use
“Building sustainable health systems in emerging economies is one of the biggest challenges of our time. However, following the path of established health systems in developed economies is not the answer. With so many types of innovation available today, emerging economies have an opportunity to bypass development stages
“The World Economic Forum is pleased to issue this report, which examines how core industry capabilities can be applied to three of the most pressing development challenges of our time: hunger, malaria, and basic education. … A recurrent theme in the Forum’s growing body of
“On September 30, 2014, the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions held a one-day workshop titled ‘Cross-Sector Responses to Obesity: Models for Change.’ The workshop was designed to explore models of cross-sector work that may reduce the prevalence and consequences of obesity, discuss lessons learned from case
“The public lands system in the United States has a long history of using public-private partnerships to run visitor services such as youth programs, raise private funds, and engage citizens in land stewardship and environmental education. … Many such partnerships are fifty (or more) years
“Currently, the highway transportation sector faces a fiscal challenge due to the gap between available funding and the costs of providing and maintaining the infrastructure. High costs have resulted from several causes such as deterioration and obsolescence related to the advanced age of much of
“When two organizations bond across sectoral lines, how do you keep the fire going?” ask the authors of this SSIR piece. They present lessons about what it takes to sustain a collaborative, cross-sector effort, and expand its impact over time. “There is a lot of
“Accenture surveyed nearly 800 public service technology leaders, in nine countries, to find out how they are currently using intelligent technologies such as advanced analytics, biometrics, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. We also sought to understand their ambitions for using these technologies in
This detailed blog post from the Center for American Progress describes the differences between traditional procurement, public-private partnerships, and private finance. “Public-private partnerships are a useful alternative form of procurement, allowing project sponsors to balance multiple goals against various delivery methods. They are not, however,
“Society’s biggest challenges are also its most complex. From shared economic growth to personalized medicine to global climate change, few of our most pressing problems are likely to have simple solutions. Perhaps the only way to make progress on these and other challenges is by