Innovative Production Systems at Statistics New Zealand: Overcoming the Design and Build Bottleneck

Allyson Seyb; Ron McKenzie; Andrew Skerrett

doi:10.2478/jos-2013-0005

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Innovative Production Systems at Statistics New Zealand: Overcoming the Design and Build Bottleneck

Journal of Official Statistics

Volume 29 (2013): Issue 1 (March 2013)

By: Allyson Seyb, Ron McKenzie and Andrew Skerrett

Open Access

|Oct 2013

Abstract

In 2011, Statistics NZ embarked on an ambitious ten-year programme of change called Statistics 2020 Te Kāpehu Whetū: Achieving the statistics system of the future. This article outlines a key component of this approach to transforming how Statistics NZ delivers its statistics. This involves modernising all aspects of statistical production - from identifying need, right through to dissemination - to ensure the organisation has the functionality and capacity to deliver now and into the future. Standardisation of processes, methods, tools, and systems to increase flexibility and efficiency is a key component of this transformation.

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