Baltimore: From Stats to Solutions

Submitted by on Tue, 05/28/2019 - 14:21

Last year, I met Kendra Parlock, the head of Baltimore’s performance and innovation office, at a periodic informal meeting of local government performance officers in the mid-Atlantic region.  I was intrigued by her upbeat update to her fellow local government peers.  After all, in the Spring of 2017, Governing magazine raised a warning flag, questioning whether the nearly two decade-old award-winning CitiStat management system in Baltimore, installed by Martin O’Malley, was dying of

Using Data Analytics to Improve Mission Outcomes

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Partnership for Public Service

Weekly Roundup: May 20-24, 2019

Submitted by on Fri, 05/24/2019 - 08:24

GAO’s Duplication & Overlap Report. The Government Accountability Office’s ninth annual report: “presents 98 new actions for Congress or executive branch agencies to reduce, eliminate, or better manage fragmentation, overlap, and duplication and achieve other financial benefits.”

The Future of Work: An Opportunity to Learn Something New

Submitted by on Mon, 05/20/2019 - 12:50

 Interestingly, a hopeful article in Harvard Business Review concludes that in the private sector, “Employees are eager to embrace retraining” and that organizations need to take advantage of this opportunity. My guess is that this is the same in the government.

Weekly Round Up - May 17, 2019

Submitted by on Fri, 05/17/2019 - 13:45

Michael J. Keegan 

Weichert: Budget shortfall, legacy IT woes drive planned OPM merger. The Trump administration plans this week to propose legislation to merge the Office of Personnel Management into the General Services Administration.

Ambassador Reuben Brigety

Submitted by on Fri, 05/10/2019 - 17:37

Ambassador Reuben E. Brigety II most recently served as the appointed Representative of the United States of America to the African Union and Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN Economic Commission for Africa on September 3, 2013. Prior to this appointment, Ambassador Brigety served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of African Affairs from November 14, 2011 until September 3, 2013 with responsibility for Southern African and Regional Security Affairs.

Weekly Round Up - May 10, 2019

Submitted by on Fri, 05/10/2019 - 16:15

Michael J. Keegan

GSA plans civilian DEOS counterpart. GSA is developing a cloud email and enterprise services contract inspired by the single-source vehicle the Department of Defense devised for back-office software.

Dr. Louie Uccellini

Submitted by on Mon, 05/06/2019 - 09:32

Dr. Louis W. Uccellini is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Assistant Administrator for Weather Services, and Director of the National Weather Service. In this role, he is responsible for the day-to-day civilian weather operations for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters, and ocean areas.

Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director, National Weather Service

Submitted by on Mon, 05/06/2019 - 09:29
Broadcast Date: 
Saturday, March 2, 2019 - 09:00
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Dr. Louis Uccellini
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