• Putting Results First
• Posted By: |   February 1, 2012
• Done properly, cost/benefit analysis can help governments make better decisions.
• Categories: State

• The Tough Times We Need
• Posted By: |   January 25, 2012
• The fiscal challenges facing local governments are an opportunity for innovation and community.
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• Putting Education Data to Work
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   January 24, 2012
• Schools are collecting mountains of information on their students. They need to do a better job of using it to improve learning.
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• How to Keep Criminals Out of Jail
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   January 19, 2012
• Newark’s mayor is using a performance-based approach to keeping his city safer by cutting its prison recidivism.
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• 1 Comments

• The Man Who Put the 'M' in OMB
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   January 18, 2012
• Roy Ash, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, is gone, but his legacy is a profound change in the way we manage our governments.
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• More for Less. Really.
• Posted By: |   January 18, 2012
• What's missing from government is the kind of "disruptive innovation" that has transformed so many other areas of our lives.
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• Fiscal Wisdom Among the Razorbacks
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   January 12, 2012
• Arkansas’ unique approach to budgeting, a product of the Depression, is helping the state keep out of the red.
• Categories: State
• 2 Comments

• The Spending-Productivity Link
• Posted By: |   January 11, 2012
• Information technology is key to productivity gains for government. Budget directors need to keep that in mind.
• Categories: Management and HR

• The Crazy Ones, the Misfits, the Rebels
• Posted By: Tim Glynn Burke |   January 10, 2012
• No one knew how to effect change better than Steve Jobs. What can public-sector leaders learn from his legacy of disruptive innovation?
• Categories: Innovation by Design
• 7 Comments

• The Argument for Reinventing the Wheel
• Posted By: |   January 4, 2012
• There are real dangers in depending solely on evidence-based approaches to improving government.
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