Government in 2020

A new report by Deloitte looks at the way government could be re-structured by 2020 due to influences of business and technology.

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November 30, 2014, 11:00 AM PST

By Maayan Dembo @DJ_Mayjahn


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As discussed by Ben Schiller on Co.Exist, Deloitte's Government 2020 Report analyzes the trends of the business and technology sector and how they could impact government processes in the future. Indeed, in the report Deloitte outlines how it expects governments to become a collection of people doing various jobs, rather than the current large hierarchical silos that exist today. "Governments [will] expand their talent networks to include 'partnership talent' (employees who are parts of joint ventures), 'borrowed talent' (employees of contractors), 'freelance talent' (independent, individual contractors) and 'open-source talent,'" according to the report.

Big data analytics will also play a larger role in the future, helping governments measure the effectiveness of a law or regulation in the same vein that companies measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or user interface design changes.

In addition, Deloitte speculates on the growth of collaborative consumption and the sharing-economy, "which turns underutilized products into on-demand services, changes how cities function, from transportation and education to water and energy supplies... Sector-spanning sharing solutions reduce pressure on public infrastructure and services, making the zero-emissions city possible."

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