Invest in What Works: A Conversation with John Bridgeland and Bruce Reed

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The U.S. federal government spends tens of billions of dollars each year on social programs that have been shown to produce modest results or worse. In other cases, billions of dollars have been spent on programs and funding streams for many years, and yet little is known from rigorous evidence about whether the programs are producing good outcomes.

Paradigm Shift #2 - from Centralized to Distributed Knowledge Management

Submitted by on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 16:07

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the shift from a 'push' to a 'pull' information economy.  The same forces are also changing the nature of knowledge management (KM) - replacing a model in which KM was an activity that was centralized in terms of time, personnel, and location, to a highly distributed activity.

Weekly Round-up: May 27, 2011

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

 

Electronic Signatures and Us: What's in a "Written" Name?

Submitted by on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 16:04

Last week, President Obama signed the extension of the Patriot Act into law.  The President did so while in Europe, based on an instruction that in order to prevent the legislation from expiring, an autopen should be used to place the President's signature on the bill.

Regulatory Reform: Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk

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Here’s one example of what the review found:

Citizen-Centric Healthcare: Can Citizens Improve Healthcare?

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By putting the user at the center, organizations can focus resources and initiatives on providing the best and most needed services. This “citizen-centric” approach takes citizens from passive recipients to active contributors through methods like design thinking, co-creation, and even analytics. This approach can benefit not only the system as a whole but also allows citizens to take ownership of their experience.

Is It Time to Adopt Portfolio Budgeting?

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A Pipe Dream? 

Weekly Round-up: April 27, 2011

Submitted by on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 15:55

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Is on vacation this week.  Still, I couldn't help but notice a much-tweeted article on the State Department's new internal social networking site.

 

John Kamensky

 

End of the Space Shuttle & the Beginning of Commercial Space: Leadership, Change, and Private-Public Partnerships

Submitted by on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 15:55

Columbia shuttle disaster of 2003, there was almost universal recognition that the space shuttle had to be replaced. In 2004, President George W. Bush directed NASA to build a shuttle successor as part of an overall “vision” to explore deep space. Then-NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe put the possibility of launching cargo and eventually crew to the ISS through private commercial means on the NASA agenda. In 2005, Michael Griffin, O’Keefe’s successor, established a program – Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) – to do just that.

The Key Role of Front Line Managers

Submitted by on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 15:53

That insight led to the creation of both Hammer Awards and Reinvention Labs as ways to both convey reinvention principles and engage people in their day-to-day workplace. 

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