IBM Center for The Business of Government

This post has been edited to reflect that "Interesting Things for Sale" is a personal pinboard, not an official GSA Pinboard.  Here are the Official GSA Pinboards.

Large companies (and governments) cannot ignore the daily demands of running large enterprises that depend on hierarchy and routines, Kotter observes.  These structures and processes work well in stable, predictable environments and their evolution and refinements have contributed greatly to society in the past hundred years.

In our daily lives, we are confronted with numerous opportunities and requests for sharing all sorts of things: our yard tools, our time, specific types of information.  And in our daily lives, whether we’re asked to share a rake or an apple pie recipe, we quickly perform a complex calculation to determine if we are willing to share the item in question and on what terms.  Online sharing tools are quickly catching up, offering ways to share new types of information (even objects) and new ways to grant or restrict access to groups or individuals.

The 2010 revision of the Government Performance and Results Act requires federal agencies to identify a limited number of two-year Agency Priority Goals.  These action-oriented goals appear in their recently-released fiscal year 2015 budget proposals and are aligned with their newly released strategic goals and objectives.