Citizen Engagement: A Pathway for Government Reform

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I recently participated on a citizen engagement roundtable with leaders from a variety of agencies, moderated by FCW, as part of a broader set of panels on citizen engagement (see FCW's summary here).

Implementing the Executive Order on Federal Sustainability: A Conversation with Michelle Moore, Federal Environmental Executive

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We spoke with the Federal Environmental Executive Michelle Moore about efforts to implement the requirements of E.O.13514, pursuing the GreenGov challenge, and working with federal agencies on sustainability plans. Here’s a sampling of what she shared with me on The Business of Government Hour:

Performance management lessons from Sweden to New Zealand

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At a time when the Office of Management and Budget is asking federal executives and managers to place even more attention on performance management activities, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has released a scanning study of how transportation agencies in Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand and Sweden apply performance management. “Linking Transportation Performance and Accountability” documents how transportatio

Sparking Innovation and Growing to Scale

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Center for American Progress researchers Jitinder Kohli and Geoff Mulgan wrote “Capital Ideas: How to Generate Innovation in the Public Sector,” and “Scaling New Heights: How to Spot Small Successes in the Public Sector and Make them Big.”  They observe that growing social innovation in the public sector is more difficult than it is to create technical innovation in the private sector

Share Your Cookies!

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I've written before that we don't pay enough attention to privacy.

Managing Costs from the Inside

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OMB and Congress are demanding agencies to rein in spending. Is there a way to do more with less? According to a new IBM Center report, the answer may be “yes.”
 
In their report, “Project Management in Government: An Introduction to Earned Value Management (EVM),” professors Young Hoon Kwak and Frank Anbari say EVM “is a management methodology for integrating the oversight of the scope, schedule, and cost of projects, and for objectively meas

Making Performance Reporting Useful

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“OMB to transform performance reviews,” reports Federal News Radio writer Meg Beasley. She writes that: “OMB will work with the Performance Improvement Council (PIC) to shift from a performance assessment approach that focuses on simply gathering information to an approach that focuses on using that information to improve agency functioning.”
 
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Checklist of Obama Cost-Cutting Initiatives

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It may be hot in Washington this summer, but agency leaders -- especially budget officers -- are facing a blizzard of memos from the White House on actions they are expected to undertake to pare back spending. Last week, Tim Kauffman and Tom Spoth wrote an article in Federal Times listing out some of the directives, but more were added before the week was out. Here’s a handy checklist (and if you have more, please add them!):

Do Not Pay List

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MN Creates Collaborative Governance Council

Submitted by on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 13:48
The Minnesota Legislature recently passed a bi-partisan bill that was signed into law to create a Collaborative Governance Council that will increase collaboration between state and local government.  Might this be an inspiration for the federal government?
 
The law creates a 12-member council to develop recommendations to increase governmental collaboration by:
  • reviewing laws and rules that slow collaboration efforts;
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