Submitted by rthomas on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 15:25
What are some of the critical transportation challenges facing the U.S.?
How is RITA forging Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for the 21st Century?
What is IntelliDrive?
How does RITA use statistics and analysis in its efforts to improvement transportation systems?
Submitted by rthomas on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 15:00
Decisions based on bad information can lead to poor results and be quite costly to organizations. This may culminate in the squandering of opportunities, taking on unnecessary risk, misallocating resources, and ultimately not achieving strategic goals or objectives. At a time of shrinking budgets and increasing expectations to do more with less, making better decisions based on informed judgment has taken on even more significance for both private sector and government organizations.
Submitted by cmasingo on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 14:42
Partial approaches are akin to arranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic. In a dysfunctional system, looking for pockets of excellence is a futile exercise. In many cases, you can get temporary results by focusing on some part of the organization or even some government departments, but you can be sure, just like a waterbed, that the inefficiency has travelled to another part that is currently not under scrutiny. Therefore, I have long argued that governments must have an integrated performance measurement system.
Submitted by rthomas on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 14:14
OMB last month released a memo on its next steps on improving agency performance. Rather than defining a government-wide, all-encompassing framework, it focuses on defining a framework for agency “high priority performance goals” and tra
Submitted by rthomas on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 13:56
Submitted by cmasingo on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 13:01
Submitted by cmasingo on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 10:59
It recently released a nine-point agenda recommending actions that Congress can take to ground funding decisions on this basis. One of its recommended actions is to expand the use of “tiered evidence” grants.
But do they work?
Submitted by cmasingo on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 10:52
Most “Government Performance Management Systems” suffer from serious conceptual flaws that have regularly proven to be fatal. For example, often there are no consequences for “good” or “bad” performance in government. Thus, even a good performance measurement system is a waste of time. In addition, performance measurement systems in government lack: (a) upfront prioritization of goals and objectives; (b) upfront agreement on how to judge deviation from targets; and (c) focus on the whole of organization.
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Submitted by cmasingo on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 10:32
Submitted by cmasingo on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 09:27
Most governments around the world are working on improving the performance of their government agencies. It is clear that the ‘performance’ of a country’s government has emerged as a key determinant of the competitive advantage of nations. The race among nations is being won not by those nations that have more resources or ideas. Rather, the outcome of this race among nations is largely determined by how effectively nations use their resources and how well they implement good ideas and policies. This task is usually achieved by a performance management system in the government.
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