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STS507 Vince G. et al.
We have the same sense of looking for the best ways ahead in bring
statistical expertise to improvements in the New Zealand data system
leadership. There are a very number of sensible initiatives in the broad
categories of providing infrastructure, facilitating standardisation and
facilitating the identification and utilisation of best practice that could be
suggested and progressed.
It is undoubtedly critical to have these frameworks and plans for their
implementation. However, it seems that sometimes value resides in unlikely
places. It is essential to develop mechanisms for understanding when two
ideas that seem equally sensible have had very different impacts and following
these opportunities to see where they can take you. Providing solutions is the
key to developing the picture of what shape our future role will take.

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