Government designed for new times: Common Challenges

"In many ways, this [financial] crisis presents an opportunity for governments to embrace those challenges and make the structural reforms that are really necessary." —McKinsey Center for Government (MCG) cofounder Diana Farrell

To meet the economic and social challenges of the citizenry today, governments must transform the way they think, organize, and execute. In the second installment of our video series on government innovation, McKinsey experts discuss the commonalities of governments around the globe attempting "to extract fewer resources from citizens and still deliver core services. "