• The Politics of Outcomes
• BY: Babak Armajani   |   October 25, 2011
• Accountability-based government requires a culture shift for elected officials. It’s a change they’re not always ready to make.
• 3 Comments

• The Local Jobs Machine
• BY: G. Edward DeSeve   |   October 19, 2011
• Washington is debating how to reduce unemployment. But job creation is a local affair, and it’s a management challenge.

• Microtasking: the Next Frontier in Government Work?
• BY: William D. Eggers,Charles Tierney   |   October 12, 2011
• It’s a way for governments to unleash the talents and energies of hundreds or thousands of people to solve problems and get big jobs done.
• 3 Comments

• A New Operating System for Government
• BY: Jim Chrisinger   |   October 5, 2011
• For states and regions to be competitive and innovative, they need transformational change. The business community could be a formidable ally.
• 5 Comments

• The Fiscal Conversation We Need
• BY: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   September 28, 2011
• The budget stress that governments face now is structural, not cyclical. What’s called for is an examination of the entire public enterprise.
• 3 Comments

• The Continuing Conflict over Standards
• BY: Paul L. Posner   |   September 21, 2011
• Business has had a lot of success setting voluntary standards that prevent regulation from Washington. States are having a harder time finding the cohesion to do the same.
• 1 Comments

• The Elusive Goal of ‘Unfair’ Budgeting
• BY: Philip Joyce   |   September 14, 2011
• We hear a lot about how performance budgeting can help in tough fiscal times. But governments are making little use of it.
• 8 Comments

• Spend More—Not Less—on IT
• BY: Jerry Mechling   |   September 7, 2011
• Cutting technology spending along with everything else is a false economy. IT-enabled productivity improvements can save more than they cost.
• 7 Comments

• The Crucial Architects of Government
• BY: Babak Armajani   |   August 31, 2011
• Delivery of public services is all about how government systems are designed. A good idea alone is not enough.

• A New Model for Management
• BY: Robert J. O'Neill Jr.   |   August 24, 2011
• Today’s most effective leaders are very different from the public administrators of the past. The challenges have changed, and the old rules no longer apply.
• 3 Comments

• What Geeks Can Teach Government
• BY: William D. Eggers,Devon Halley   |   August 17, 2011
• Technology development works very differently from the way government programs are launched, managed — and ended. There are lessons for government in the way the gadgets we use are created.
• 4 Comments

• How’s Your ‘Court Vision’?
• BY: Russ Linden   |   August 10, 2011
• Effective leaders know the importance of focusing not only on the things they can control, but on the larger picture.

• Federalism: Can't We All Just Get Along?
• BY: G. Edward DeSeve   |   August 3, 2011
• We used to have a forum for our various levels of government to consult with one another. There's a simple way to get that conversation going again.
• 1 Comments

• Better than Cutting
• BY: Jim Chrisinger   |   July 27, 2011
• Slashing budgets across the board protects the worst spending. There are plenty of far more effective ways to go.

• Collaboration Done Right
• BY: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   July 20, 2011
• A public-private coalition of adoption services in Texas is getting many more kids into homes and saving money in the process.

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