Five Emerging Innovation and Social Media Trends and Why They Matter Now

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Social media and a renewed emphasis on innovation and DIY—exemplified by the MakerMovement and the rise of intrapreneurs—is transforming how government agencies operate and how they interact with citizens.  Within the past four years, the n

Measuring the Unobserved

Submitted by on Thu, 01/04/2018 - 17:39

Cracking the challenge of measuring unobserved behaviors – drug smuggling, tax fraud, counterfeiting, and illegal immigration – is key to developing better strategies and targeting resources in the right places to catch and deter illegal actions.

Key Features of Cross-Agency Collaborative Mechanisms

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has developed an inventory of “mechanisms that the federal government uses to lead and implement interagency collaboration,” along with a self-assessment checklist to consider when using them.

GAO’s latest study on collaborative governance is based on an analysis of more than 300 past GAO reports covering issues such as homeland security, agriculture, and health, as well as a series of interviews with experts on the topic.

The Next Four Years: Managing Across Agencies – Building from Collaboration to a New Model

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 - to move to a new model of managing activities from a cross-program view, leveraging resources to more effectively serve a citizen or business.

Building an Analytics Culture

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Investing in, and using, program evaluation has been a hard sell in many agencies for years.  While evaluation is important for long-term program assessments, it can be expensive and take years to complete.  But with new technology and greater availability of data, many agencies are beginning to take advantage of the value of existing real-time administrative data.  This movement is called “data analytics.”  And the immediacy of results is appealing to many executives.

The Next Four Years: Intelligence Community Reform - Refining not Rebooting

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question of additional Intelligence Community reform. Did the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 "get it right?", the question goes. Is a sweeping reorganization of the Intelligence Community required to "fix the problem?"

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Smart policies for Smartphones: Acceptable Online Activities During Work Hours

Submitted by on Thu, 01/04/2018 - 16:46

I'm in Seoul, South Korea, this week for a Global e-Government Forum.  Seoul is 13 hours ahead of Washington, DC, so for more than half the day, it's tomorrow.  But that's not the only way that Seoul is in the future.  The smell of kimchi mixes with the omnipresent electronica of smartphone rings and tablet notifications.  The Samsung building is visible from my hotel room, and its logo appears on at a majority of devices I've seen in this city.

Government Reform: Insights for the Future of the Movement (Part 6)

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  • Strong statutory and institutional structures and an investment in performance management systems seem to be more common in emerging countries.  For example, in Columbia this is embedded in their constitution and Kenya has created a department to lead the nation’s transformation efforts.  In more developed countries such as the United Kingdom and Ireland, these efforts are more administratively-based, oftentimes at the discretion of the prime minister.
  • The use of multi-year national strategic plans is on the rise.  Ag

Weekly Round-up: October 12, 2012

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Smart Policies for Smartphones: Managing Productivity

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Some companies, famously, have game rooms for employees.  Most organizations require that their employees abstain from gaming while at work, and some go so far as to block not only gaming Websites, but many social sites as well.  When employees bring their own smartphones to work, however, and when they connect to the internet using their own networks, employers cannot simply block a site on their own server and think they've solved the problem of distracting technology.

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