1. Improving Government Performance

Obama’s FY 2011 Management Initiatives (02-02-10)

Obama’s Stealth Management Revolution (02-11-10)

The OMB Prize Memo (03-09-10)

Key National Indicators Are Now Real (03-23-10)

Amending GPRA to Track Performance; May 21, 2010

House Passes Results Act Amendments; June 16, 2010

Making Performance Reporting Useful; June 29, 2010 (Metzenbaum memo)

Should We Create a Performance Management Framework?; July 7, 2010

Beach Reading for Performance Wonks; July 8, 2010 (Bouckaert-Halligan book)

Summer Field Trip to Annapolis; July 13, 2010 (Senate Hrg on Performance-Stat)

Re-Thinking Performance Metrics in Federal Agencies; August 10, 2010

UK Public Service Agreements, August 24, 2010

Rise of Centralized, Mechanistic Decisionmaking; September 21, 2010

Congress Hits “Refresh” Button on Results Act; October 5, 2010

Engaging Partners in Measuring Program Effectiveness; October 12, 2010 (Jeff Tryens)

 

2. Transforming the Workforce and Employee Engagement

Motivating Workers (01-04-10)

Chances to Innovate (01-08-10)

Managing Guerrilla Employees (02-12-10)

Balancing Innovation, Risk, and Control (03-03-10)

How Leaders Make a Difference (03-04-10)

Middle Managers in a Web 2.0 World (03-31-10)

Mocking Public Service (04-29-10)

Labor-Management Forums and Performance (05-04-10)

It’s Hard to Be Cool; October 19, 2010 (trust in gov workers declines)

 

3. Collaborating Across Boundaries

The OMB Prize Memo (03-09-10)

Harnessing Informal Networks (03-10-10)

Virtual USA and Web 2.0 (03-19-10)

Passionate About Collaboration (04-23-10)

GSA’s FedSpace Collaboration Platform; May 18, 2010

Crowdsourcing the BP Oil Spill; May 20, 2010

Creating a Problem-Solving Network (Part I); May 25, 2010

Creating a Problem-Solving Network (Part II); May 26, 2010

MN Creates Collaborative Governance Council; June 17, 2010

Crowdsourcing Government Reform; July 15, 2010

Interagency Collaboration Practices; August 17, 2010 (series of GAO reports)

Strategies Promoting Collaboration on the Front Line; August 30, 2010

Regulatory Partnerships:  Good or Bad? (Part 1); September 28, 2010

Regulatory Partnerships:  Good or Bad? (Part 2); September 29, 2010

 

4.  Contracting and Acquisition

Obama Procurement Agenda (03-12-10)

Reforming the Contracting System:  Defense; May 12, 2010

Defense Contract Reform: Recommendations; May 13, 2010

 

5. Open and Transparent Government

The Open Government Dialogue (Agencies launch 5-week effort) (02-09-10)

Making Sense of Open Gov Dialogues (02-10-10)

Virtual USA and Web 2.0 (03-19-10)

Congressional Transparency Caucus Formed (03-25-10)

Open Gov Plans Countdown (04-02-10)

Open Gov Plans Released, And . . . (04-09-10)

Scorecarding Agency Open Gov Plans (04-27-10)

HUD’s Open Gov Plan Focuses on Mission (05-05-10)

3-D Virtual Worlds Come to Government; June 3, 2010

Using Open Gov to Identify Low-Priority Agency Programs; June 10, 2010

Is Open Gov 1950 Stymieing Open Gov 2010?; November 2, 2010

 

6. Citizen Engagement and Customer Service

Redefining the Role of Citizen in a Gov 2.0 World (02-04-10)

Using GIS to Increase Citizen Engagement (04-16-10)

Congress and Citizen Engagement (04-22-10)

Improving Customer Service; November 9, 2010 (GAO report)

Expert Net: Trolling for New Ideas; December 30, 2010

 

7. Managing Finances and Budgets (Cost Cutting)

Fiscal Summit and America’s Fiscal Challenges (05-06-10)

Defense Reform:  The Gates Speech; May 11, 2010

OMB’s FY 2012 Budget Guidance; June 9, 2010

Using Open Gov to Identify Low-Priority Agency Programs; June 10, 2010

Checklist of Obama Cost-Cutting Initiatives; June 22, 2010

Managing Costs from the Inside; June 30, 2010 (EVM Report)

Eliminating Government Program Duplication and Overlap; August 5, 2010

Rethinking Financial Reporting; August 18, 2010 (Werfel - study)

Re-Thinking the CFO Act; November 17, 2010

 

8. Technology, Web 2.0, and Social Media

Gov/Web 2.0 Predictions for 2010 (01-06-10)

Virtual USA and Web 2.0 (03-19-10)

Middle Managers in a Web 2.0 World (03-31-10)

Using GIS to Increase Citizen Engagement (04-16-10)

GAO:  Challenges in Agencies’ Use of Web 2.0; July 22, 2010

Federal Agency Social Media Hubs; August 2, 2010

 

9. Agency Transformation

HUD Transformation Initiative (01-12-10)

HUD’s Open Gov Plan Focuses on Mission (05-05-10)

Veterans Affairs: “Transformation 21″ and Beyond (01-21-10)

Leadership Matters; January 15, 2010 (USAID’s Rajiv Shah)

 

10. Lessons on Reform and Innovation

Calling on Corporate Leaders: Now vs. Then (White House CEO Forum on Modernizing Government) (01-19-10)

Finding Bright Spots (01-25-10)

Doing What Works (a new initiative by the Center for American Progress) (02-18-10)

Why Execution Stalls (03-08-10)

Modernizing Government: Forum Results (03-24-10)

Australian Management Reform (04-06-10)

White House Management Advisory Board (04-21-10)

Sparking Innovation and Growing to Scale; July 2, 2010

Getting “Change” Right; July 19, 2010

An Agenda of Key Reforms; July 29, 2010 (CAP report)

UK Public Service Agreements; August 24, 2010

Finally, a Name! September 14, 2010 (Accountable Govt memo)

Do-Gooders and Good Government; November 23, 2010

Redesigning Government: U.S. Virgin Islands Style; December 8, 2010

 

11.  Administrative Reform

The Mouse That Roared; June 11, 2010 (Reconstitution of ACUS)

Federal Rulemaking of the Future; October 26, 2010

E-Rulemaking: Fix or Transform? ; December 1, 2010

Rip Van Winkle Awakens: Does He Looks Like Nicholas Cage?; December 15, 2010

 

12. Public Management Research

Framing a Public Management Research Agenda (02-22-10)

Topic 1: Performance Improvement and Analysis (02-23-10)

Topic 2: Implementing the Recovery Act (02-24-10)

Topic 3: Federal Contracting and Acquisition (02-25-10)

Topic 4: Technology, Transparency, and Participatory Democracy (02-26-10)

A High Performance Government (04-13-10) Volcker’s new reform campaign