Reimaging Government From The Ground Up - Li Hong Yi
I think Hong Yi makes some very good points. He talks about how managers have limited attention and can get overwhelmed when too many things are placed on their plate.
The attention based view is a known and mainstream logic among management experts.
However, I don't fully agree that is a problem in most government organisations due to delegation and scoping of work.
For example, the CEO tells the CTO to create a new website. The CEO will leave everything to the CTO and his team. The CEO may take a look and leave some comments for the CTO but that's it.
I think the issue he faces is more of his engineering teams going into many different organisations and making apps for them and getting the apps approved. It is perhaps more of an innovation, structural and authority issue which I think GovTech has solved quite well so far by being an inhouse WOG consulting and development arm.