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04 June 2025

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Government trends 2025

Introduction

Built to deliver: Nine trends advancing government’s capacity to deliver on big things

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Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to Ipshita Sinha, Nicole Luis, David Noone, and Bruce Chew from the Deloitte Center for Government Insights for their invaluable operational and research support...

The authors express their gratitude to Ipshita Sinha, Nicole Luis, David Noone, and Bruce Chew from the Deloitte Center for Government Insights for their invaluable operational and research support.

This report owes its publication to the dedicated support of the Deloitte Insights team. The authors would like to acknowledge Kavita Majumdar, Rupesh Bhat, Aparna Prusty, Pubali Dey, Arpan Kumar Saha, and Cintia Cheong for their editorial contributions. They would also like to thank the following members of the visual and design team for their artwork and data visualizations: Melissa O’Brien, Jim Slatton, Natalie Pfaff, Govindh Raj, Sofia Sergi, and Sonya Vasilieff.

The author team extends their gratitude to various members of Deloitte’s Government and Public Services global leadership for their insights, feedback, and continued support, including Alia Kamlani, Alex Claybrook, Angela Choi, Caroline Abela, Daniel Markham, Glenn Davidson, Gustav Jeppesen, Jacqueline London, Jamie Sawchuk, Jitinder Kohli, John Byrne-Nash, Josh Schoop, Kushal Singh, Michael Isman, Roy Mathew, Sara Siegel, Scott Streiner, Stephen Harrington, Stijn Vandeweyer, Sudeep Sinha, Suguna Sundaravadivel, Vishal Rander, and Walter Porter.

Finally, the author team would like to thank the GPS marketers—Shane O’Hagan, Leslie Wolf, Neelangana Noopur, Revathi Marthi, Adina Preiss, and Zishan Ali—for their support in promoting Government Trends 2025 across various geographies.

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