Eight Strategies for Transforming Government

Submitted by on Wed, 10/26/2022 - 14:36

Our collaboration with recognized scholars and thought leaders is intended to spark the imagination—crafting new ways to think about government by identifying trends, new ideas, and best practices in public management and innovation.

Based on our recent research and perspectives shared by current and former government, academic, and nonprofit leaders, this special report identifies eight strategies for transforming government in the years to come. These strategies draw on significant insights from a research roundtable in 2020.

Weekly Roundup October 17-21, 2022

Submitted by on Fri, 10/21/2022 - 16:33
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Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC – Episode 20 – FITARA Enhancements. On this episode, Dave Wennergren talks with technology executives Richard Spires, Margie Graves and Dave Powner about the recently released ACT-IAC report: “Recommendations for Evolving the FITARA Scorecard.”

Reflections on Public Service – A Special Edition of The Business of Government Hour with Mike Brown, former Director, Defense Innovation Unit

Submitted by on Fri, 10/21/2022 - 11:50
What was it like to lead the Defense Innovation Unit? How had DIU transformed the way the U.S. Department of Defense fields commercial technology? What does the future hold for innovation at DoD? Join Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more on former government executive Mike Brown on a Special Edition of The Business of Government Hour.
Broadcast Date: 
Friday, October 21, 2022 - 11:38
Author: 
Mike Brown
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Weekly Roundup October 10-14, 2022

Submitted by on Fri, 10/14/2022 - 13:50

The Agile-Policymaking Frontier – Part 1 and 2. Prof. Larry A. Rosenthal, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley discusses “agile policymaking” as a vehicle for better government and how agile would be more objective and evidenced-based when it comes to traditional policy analysis (“TPA”).

The Agile-Policymaking Frontier (Part II)

Submitted by on Wed, 10/12/2022 - 12:21

In my previous post, I discussed “agile policymaking” as a vehicle for better government and how agile would be more objective and evidenced-based when it comes to traditional policy analysis (“TPA”).

The Agile-Policymaking Frontier

Submitted by on Tue, 10/11/2022 - 14:23

Just the sound of “making government more agile” summons pleasing images to the civic mind: resilient response to changing conditions; innovation and ingenuity; immediacy in problem-solving; citizen-centered service; bureaucracy getting out of the way; experimentation leading to progress.

Dr. Jennifer Bachner

Submitted by on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 20:59
Jennifer Bachner, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author America’s State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Routledge), What Washington Gets Wrong (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Penguin Random House) and editor of Analytics, Policy and Governance (with Kathryn Wagner Hill and Benjamin Ginsberg, Yale University Press).

Addressing the New Era of Deterrence and Warfare: Visualizing the Information Domain

Submitted by on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 12:42

Blog Co-Authors:  Kim Kagan, founder and president of the Institute for the Study of War; Fred Kagan, senior fellow and director of the Critical Threats Project at American Enterprise Institute; 

Dr. Jen Bachner

Submitted by on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 10:02
She is the author America’s State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Routledge), What Washington Gets Wrong (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Penguin Random House) and editor of Analytics, Policy and Governance (with Kathryn Wagner Hill and Benjamin Ginsberg, Yale University Press). Her reports, Optimizing Analytics for Policymaking and Governance and Predictive Policing: Preventing Crime with Data and Analytics, have been published by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

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