Weekly Round Up - March 8, 2019

Submitted by on Fri, 03/08/2019 - 17:52

Michael J. Keegan

GAO: Cyber Mission Force teams need more training. The Government Accountability Office found that, despite ongoing efforts, Cyber Mission Force teams need more training and Cyber Command needs to improve plans to supply it.

Creating a data-first culture at federal agencies. Agencies need to emphasize the connection between analytics and outcomes.

Creating a Framework to Measure Performance - Consistently

Submitted by on Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:39

The big challenge for top leaders is - How do you create a leadership framework to achieve results, day-in and day-out, in a sustainable way, that stays focused and doesn’t let the organization get distracted by the inevitable headline-grabbing urgencies that arise on a regular basis that sap focus away from key mission goals?

Melissa Wavelet

Submitted by on Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:22

During more than 20 years of work in the nonprofit and public sectors, she has designed, implemented, and continuously improved a wide variety of social programs to be effective for their customers. Prior to 2013, she oversaw quality assurance and performance management (which was dubbed “KidStat”) at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families.

A Practitioner’s Framework for Measuring Results: Using “C-Stat” at the Colorado Department of Human Services

Submitted by on Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:13

While this report is a framework for measuring performance in state agencies, it has relevance to performance measurement in other large public sector organizations as well. The author describes the evolution of C-Stat as a management framework for over a seven-year period, and offers concrete and actionable advice on the dynamics of using such an approach.

Terry Gerton

Submitted by on Fri, 03/01/2019 - 16:09

Terry Gerton was named President and CEO of the National Academy of Public Administration in January 2017. The Academy is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization, chartered by Congress to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations. 

Weekly Round Up - March 1, 2019

Submitted by on Fri, 03/01/2019 - 13:45

Michael J. Keegan

Federal government rolls out new framework for security clearance process. Trusted Workforce 2.0 is new framework to improve a security clearance process that has received criticism across the spectrum for being slow, inefficient and overly reliant on manual procedure.

More Than Meets AI

Submitted by on Thu, 02/28/2019 - 09:00

Contributors to this post:  Claude Yusti, Tatiana Sokolova, and Alayna Kennedy from IBM, and Peter Kamoscai and Katie Malague from the Partnership for Public Service

 

Artificial intelligence is transforming how government agencies carry out missions and serve citizens.

Watch the interview on Government Matters, "Artificial intelligence to change the way people in government work."

More Than Meets AI

Submitted by on Thu, 02/28/2019 - 06:00

Human beings have been interested in intelligent automation as far back as ancient times, when Greeks believed an automated man made of bronze circled Crete several times a day to protect Europa, the mother of the island’s King Minos, from pirates and invaders. This myth from more than 2,000 years ago perhaps prophesized the vision people have today of relinquishing routine tasks to machines, so people can take on assignments that require creative thinking and high-level reasoning.

Leadership Stories: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Public Service

Submitted by on Wed, 02/27/2019 - 17:11

Leadership Stories: Avi Bender and Entrepreneurial Leadership in Public Service

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