Over the course of about 30 years, Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene, principals of Barrett and Greene, Inc. have done much-praised analysis, research and writing about state and local governments. Described by Peter Harkness, founder of Governing Magazine as "by far the most experienced journalists in the country covering public performance," they pioneered "grading the cities, counties and states" in management.
As long ago as 2010, the federal government’s Plain Writing Act required that all federal agencies write "clear government communication that the public can understand and use."
Blog Co-Authors: Terry Gerton, President and CEO, National Academy of Public Administration and Dave Zaharchuk, Research Director, Thought Leadership, IBM Institute for Business Value.
Recently, Arun Gupta, co-author of Venture Meets Missionjoined me on The Business of Government Hour to discuss his new book, which he wrote with Gerard George and Thomas J. Fewer. Gupta says the book shows how we can harness the innovativeness of entrepreneurship with the scale of government in a new model of collaboration that he claims will reinvigorate America’s competitiveness and tackle some of the world’s most intractable problems.
On behalf of the IBM Center for The Business of Government, we are pleased to release this report, The Role of Risk Leadership in Defining ERM Readiness in Government, by Peter C. Young of the University of St. Thomas and Trang Hoang of University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Government organizations must tackle risk and uncertainty in a more systematic and enterprise manner. The authors of this new report, Peter Young and Trang Hoang, provide timely and insightful perspectives that underscore the connection between leadership actions that support government risk management and successful efforts to implement enterprise risk management (ERM). The report explores two distinct concepts—risk leadership and ERM readiness.
On November 16, 2023, the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and the IBM Center for the Business of Government co-hosted an event, Building on Regulatory Foundations and Bridging to the Future, commemorating the 30th anniversary of Executive Order 12866 and 20th anniversary of Circular A-4.
Trang Hoang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Finance in the School
of Public Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Hoang’s research focuses on
public pension, state and local governmental budgeting and financial management, nonprofit
financial management, and risk management.
