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Government & Public Sector
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Solving your complex challenges
- Advancing digitization
- Modernizing workforce
- Smarter spending
CHALLENGE
Adopting technology effectively, efficiently and safely to drive improvement across public services
Legacy IT and integration issues hamper public sector efforts to incorporate new technologies. The advancement of technology requires governments to accelerate readiness through improved data, migration of systems to sovereign cloud and effective security and ethical protocols.
HOW EY CAN HELP
EY helps governments to transform by strengthening data and insights, strategy development, digital infrastructure and value measurement.
- AI and data transformation: building a trusted data fabric to standardize, reuse and scale data, and using data analytics to develop insights and improve decision-making
- Enterprise IT transformation: implementing sustainable, human-led, value-focused integration of digital technology
- Data privacy: helping organizations to design, implement and operate data privacy programs through capabilities in data, regulation, consulting, legal, cybersecurity and forensics
FEATURED
How a five-step roadmap helps governments succeed with AI
Governments are moving beyond asking whether to adopt artificial intelligence (AI), to focusing on how to implement it responsibly, effectively and at scale.
CHALLENGE
Building capacity and capability of the government workforce
Public sector organizations are challenged to attract, develop and retain talent. Their workforces need equipping with new skills for our digital workplace to drive effectiveness and efficiency.
HOW EY CAN HELP
EY helps to improve public services and programs by helping to build future‑ready workforces that can use technology effectively.
- People experience: transforming culture and leadership to align with and adapt to new ways of working
- HR transformation: enabling employee support and recruitment, physical return to work, and complex program and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation
- Organization and workforce transformation: accelerating digital adoption through workforce transformation
- People mobility: accommodating remote or hybrid models and driving increased transparency and compliance
FEATURED
Government: Leading into Tomorrow
In this podcast series from EY, senior public sector leaders reveal how they’re delivering on the promise of a better post-pandemic future.
CHALLENGE
Allocating and managing public money more effectively
Governments are grappling with expensive challenges, such as aging populations, inadequate infrastructure, the carbon transition, expansion of defense capabilities and debt servicing. New strategies are required to improve how effectively and efficiently public money is spent.
HOW EY CAN HELP
EY helps government organizations to manage public money across the spending cycle, so that it is spent efficiently and allocated in ways that lead to the desired policy outcome.
- Strategic planning: conducting economic and fiscal planning, outcomes-based budgeting and debt management to build strong financial foundations
- Operational efficiency: developing process improvement, cost optimization and new delivery models to improve administration
- Performance and reporting: providing audit, risk management and program evaluation to build trust and confidence
- Technology transformation: applying new technologies to map spending to outcomes and improve the impact of public investment
FEATURED
Blockchain for Public Finance
The EY OpsChain Public Finance Manager solution can help government entities spend money more effectively and efficiently.
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The EY OpsChain Public Finance Manager solution can help government entities spend money more effectively and efficiently. Learn how.
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