A monthly interview with people who've crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries to join a new working world.

CSW reviews the latest release from The Public Management and Leadership Series 

Bronwyn Hill explains why she loves going to her rowing club every weekend – and she hasn’t picked a genteel West London group! 

Vincent Belliveau, senior vice president and general manager EMEA at Cornerstone discusses the importance of onboarding in supporting both employee engagement and retention

The government’s chief scientific adviser and head of the science and engineering profession, Sir Mark Walport, tells CSW about his priorities in the role

Whatever the result of the next General Election, the UK will operate a new kind of government after 2015.

Sir Jonathon Porritt has been an environmental campaigner for 40 years – including nine spent working directly with civil servants. He tells Winnie Agbonlahor why, despite his disappointment with the ‘greenest government ever’, he has reasons to be optimistic

As the civil service gears up to meet the challenges of 21st century government, new skills and capabilities are vital. Yet in a time of restrained public spending, attracting and  retaining skilled employees has never been so challenging. 

Andrew Lansley’s health reforms, designed to put doctors in the driving seat, have been widely panned – and he’s subsequently been sacked. But what do local GPs think? CSW finds out

The Crown Prosecution Service saw its staff survey scores on learning and development rise 11 percentage points in a year, thanks to chief exec Peter Lewis

As chairman of the Environment Agency, Chris Smith had even more reason than most Brits to curse the weather last winter.

Sally Collier, CEO of the Crown Commercial Service, says common sense is the new gospel in the civil service’s commercial operations. CSW learns about the reformation in government procurement and contract management

After seven years running the Met Office, John Hirst is returning to the business world. CSW gets his views on leading civil servants, working with politicians, and being in charge of the weather

Is Social Media Right for the Public Sector? Cornerstone take a closer look.

Damien Venkatasamy says technological challenges are not the only ones which government organisations need to overcome to transform services.

Having promised Scotland new powers in a panicky bid to secure a ‘no’ vote in the referendum, the three main parties now have to deliver on their vow – and throw England a bone too. CSW examines the implications. Illustration by John Levers

The ‘big data’ phenomenon has already enabled civil servants to spot fraud and tighten financial oversight; now they’re analysing the wealth of new datasets to create and reshape policies. Stuart Watson listened in at a CSW round table on the subject

As the election looms, CSW puts six questions to deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg

Since becoming the government’s executive director of digital in 2011, Mike Bracken has transformed Whitehall’s approach to IT and web services. He’s done so, he tells CSW, by disrupting the status quo to implant a revolutionary new agenda

Mentioning the words ‘government’ and ‘IT’ in the same breath has traditionally been a signal for sighs and raised eyebrows. The press coverage generated earlier this year by care.data – the proposed NHS system for storing and sharing patient information – once again illustrated how public sector technology projects can come unstuck.

I rundown of a key piece of legislation; what are its aims and how will it affect you? This edition we look at the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.

Developments in public service reform from around the world

In our monthly feature focussing on people who have crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries, Mark Gibson talks about his move from the then-Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) to the Whitehall and Industry Group

Journalist and historian Peter Hennessy meets former chief of the defence staff General Sir David Richards to discuss Whitehall’s internal wars, and the need for truly strategic thinking in Whitehall