deliverologyn.
/dᵻˌlɪvəˈrɒlədʒi/, U.S. /dəˌlɪvəˈrɑlədʒi/, /diˌlɪvəˈrɑlədʒi/ Politics.
A target-driven process designed to ensure the successful implementation of reforms or achievement of policy goals within government or the public sector.Originally used as a humorous term in the British civil service with the ironic implication that such a process constituted a science.
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2007 M. Barber Instr. to Deliver iii. 70 Terrible word, ‘deliverology’ but once Nick Macpherson had coined it, it stuck as a piece of Whitehall shorthand for all the methods we in the Delivery Unit developed in order to get our job done.
2017 Maclean's (Toronto) 11 Sept. Then there is the mysterious disappearance, at least as a public, visible aspect of the government's work, of deliverology, the fabled system for publicly tracking government performance against public targets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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