• Obama's Performance Measurement Agenda
• BY: Philip Joyce   |   March 23, 2011
• Will the president's performance measurement efforts be used to balance the budget, or to fund successful programs?
• 7 Comments

• Creating a 'Line of Sight'
• BY: Russ Linden   |   March 16, 2011
• When employees have a line of sight, they can see the connection between their everyday work, and something larger.
• 5 Comments

• The iPad: Risky Game-Changer
• BY: Jerry Mechling   |   March 9, 2011
• Will the iPad, and competing tablet computers, help us manage information overload or add to the distractions?
• 2 Comments

• The Perils of Performance Measurement
• BY: Babak Armajani   |   March 2, 2011
• If you want performance management to really take hold in your organization, follow these 6 tips.
• 4 Comments

• A Results-First Approach to Cost Reduction
• BY: Jitinder Kohli,William D. Eggers,John Griffith   |   February 23, 2011
• When states and cities respond to record budget shortfalls with across-the-board cuts, some vital public services unnecessarily end up on the chopping block.
• 2 Comments

• State Resistance
• BY: Paul L. Posner   |   February 16, 2011
• What are the forces behind the contentious current fight to redefine federalism?
• 2 Comments

• Governors And Budgets
• BY: Jim Chrisinger   |   February 9, 2011
• How governors spend money is their most powerful lever to prioritize, make performance consequential and move agencies and stakeholders from frustration to innovation.

• Knowing What Works: Evaluating Evidence-Based Programs
• BY: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   February 2, 2011
• What if a program is not producing the results desired? Should state and local officials immediately scrap it?
• 4 Comments

• Cutting Education Costs, Not Education
• BY: William D. Eggers   |   January 26, 2011
• A few promising approaches to finding cost savings without cutting student services.
• 2 Comments

• Innovation in Iowa
• BY: Jim Chrisinger   |   January 19, 2011
• West Des Moines, Iowa, may not seem a likely hot spot for public management innovation, but it thinks big when it comes to delivering value.

• How New Governors Can Renew Public Trust
• BY: William D. Eggers,Robert N. Campbell III   |   January 12, 2011
• New governors are being greeted by a flood of red ink and a public that doesn't trust the state governments they run.
• 2 Comments

• Maintaining the Public Trust While Making Tough Choices
• BY: Robert J. O'Neill Jr.   |   January 5, 2011
• ICMA's executive director discusses his organization's guidelines to ensuring fair compensation.

• Tracking Sustainability Projects
• BY: Gerry DeSeve,Robert Fryer   |   December 29, 2010
• A guide to gathering the right data, and communicating a sustainability project's progress.

• Transforming Juvenile Justice
• BY: Feather O'Connor Houstoun   |   December 22, 2010
• In these times of crisis, juvenile justice reform is politically saleable, cost effective and smart.
• 4 Comments

• The "Traps" to Successful Implementation
• BY: Russ Linden   |   December 15, 2010
• A guide to avoiding these five traps, and successfully implementing public initiatives.

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