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Weekly Roundup: December 1-5, 2014

by John Kamensky
Friday, December 5, 2014
Articles from across the Web that we found interesting, the week of December 1-5, 2014.

Three Key Ingredients to Build an Investigative Analytics Unit

by Brian Murrow
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Steve Beltz is the Assistant Director of the Recovery Operation Center of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which provides transparency of ARRA-related funds and detects and prevents fraud, waste, and mismanagement of those funds.

Weekly Round-up: November 14, 2014

by Michael J. Keegan
Friday, November 14, 2014
The IBM Center's Weekly Round Up highlights articles and insights that we found interesting for the week ending November 14.

Using Big Data Analytics to Effectively Oversee Financial Markets — The Three Essential Ingredients.

by Brian Murrow
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Ms. Lori Walsh is the Chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Center for Risk and Quantitative Analytics (Center), which looks for potentially suspicious patterns of stock transactions.

Magnifying the Voice of the Future

by John Kamensky
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Can leaders in a democracy think beyond the next election? This is a key question posed by a New Zealand academic, Jonathan Boston, who is studying how different countries attempt to address long-term risks to society, the environment, and fiscal sustaina

Transforming Acquisition for the Future

by Dan Chenok
Monday, November 10, 2014
The recent series of columns “3 Myths That Cripple Acquisition” stressed that acquisition transformation, not just reform, is critical to enable the federal government to effectively lead in the Collaboration Age.

Transforming Acquisition for the Future

by Dan Chenok
Monday, November 10, 2014
The recent series of columns “3 Myths That Cripple Acquisition” stressed that acquisition transformation, not just reform, is critical to enable the federal government to effectively lead in the Collaboration Age.

Weekly Round-up: November 7, 2014

by Michael J. Keegan
Friday, November 7, 2014
The IBM Center's Weekly Round Up highlights articles and insights that we found interesting for the week ending November 7

Gerald Ray, Social Security Administration: Conversations on Using Analytics to Improve Mission Outcomes

by Brian Murrow
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Applying Analytics to a Continuous Process of Improvement

New Report: Federal Ideation Programs: Challenges and Best Practices

by Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Announcing the release of the Center report Federal Ideation Programs: Challenges and Best Practices.

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Center Blog Series

The Center maintains several blog series written by our Fellows and those in academia and the nonprofit world.  Our blog series include:

Tax Modernization Series by Peggy Bogadi, Florian Breger, and Sharon Moore

Agile Government, Why Now by Angela Evans

Improving Outcomes in Government through Data and Intelligent Automation by The IBM Center for The Business of Government and the Partnership for Public Service

Distance Work in the Time of COVID by John Kamensky

Community Resilience and Reshaping Government during COVID by Donald F. Kettl

Managing Risk in the Public Sector by Dan Chenok and Michael J. Keegan

Business of Government Stories (the people behind the management evolution) by Dan Chenok, John Kamensky, and guest authors

State and Local Government Best Practices by Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene

Government Performance Management - a video series by Praja Trivedi