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Monday, December 9, 2013
Government agencies regularly report “incident” data, such as the number of burglaries, house fires, cases of food poisoning, bankruptcies, workplace injuries, and more.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Articles from across the Web that we found interesting, the week of December 02, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Though mobile technology may help increase the standard of living in poor, rural, and remote communities, it also holds the promise of other benefits, like better health, and closer ties to the central government.
by Dan Chenok
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Government executives can harness major technological shifts and adapt proven public-sector and commercial best practices to make their agencies more efficient and effective.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Can federal performance management schemes influence efforts at the local level? Typically, performance management works best in systems where agencies engage in direct service delivery, where leaders have more control over what is going on.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Twitter's importance lies not only in its utility as a broadcast medium--but also in it's value as a listening tool.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Agency and program leaders depend on a range of mission support functions, such as finance, technology, acquisition, or workforce management, to get their jobs done. The delivery of these functions, however, have changed over the past quarter century.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
The bruising battles over the budget and debt ceiling only resulted in pushing the goal posts for completion down the road a few months. Are there any lessons on how to be more successful?
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Research on decision-making has made advances in recent years, but the research has not been applied to the actual practice of decision-making, observes Swiss professor Phil Rosenzweig in a recent article in the November issue of Harvard Business Review.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Fostering Innovation to Drive Change in Government