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The Pains and Pleasures of Restructuring

Monday, June 27th, 2011 - 11:23
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
As John Thomasian, director of the NGA Center for Best Practices told us, “They’ve not just been streamlining government because it’s a luxury but because it was a necessity.” In fact, according to the NGA Center,  in 2009 and 2010, “At least 15 states conducted government wide efficiency reviews to identify areas of state government that can be made more efficient and less costly; at least 18 states have reorganized agencies.”
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E-forms make the Army more efficient – and help keep the troops safe

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 - 21:20
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 21:17
Like many large organizations, the Army has complex business processes with multiple levels of approval. Those approvals require over 100,000 different types of forms. In addition to requiring hours of work and running up billions of dollars in administrative processing costs, paper forms can put troops in harms way. In countries like Iraq, the Army had to organize convoys to transport forms across combat areas, and planes had to fly through war zones to transport forms back to the United States.
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FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt on NextGen

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 - 10:47
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Weekly Wrap Up: Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Eliminating Overlap

Friday, March 4th, 2011 - 20:57
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Charles Prow
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 19:53
This week, Ravi Bansal, an IBM project executive and strategist on cloud computing and smarter government initiatives, shared his views on the 5E Framework for IT Consolidation: efficiency and effectiveness.
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The 5E Framework for Targeted IT Consolidation

Monday, February 21st, 2011 - 16:17
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Monday, February 21, 2011 - 14:58
The 5E Framework for Targeted IT Consolidation – First in a Series: Ted Levitt, a marketing author, observed “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!” When considering IT consolidation, it’s easy to be snared in the vicious circle of how, when and what.
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Eliminating Government Program Duplication and Overlap

Thursday, August 5th, 2010 - 15:04
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John M. Kamensky
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 14:59
A recent survey by the left-leaning Center for American Progress find that most Americans lack confidence in government and one of the leading factors is that three-quarters feel that government agencies duplica
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Implementing the National Health Information Technology Agenda

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 - 11:40
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Michael J. Keegan
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 11:05
The U.S. healthcare system has a history of innovation marked by the ability to translate basic research into new clinical and therapeutic approaches that sustain human life and health. Such success brings with it significant challenges.
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Great profile. Dr. Blumenthal is doing exceptional work and it is very good to see you folks are getting this information out to people. Nice job!

07/22/2010 - 14:50
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Leveraging research into healthcare quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety

Monday, February 1st, 2010 - 19:07
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Michael J. Keegan
A Profile of Dr. Carolyn M. Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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In healthcare, we would all benefit from asking ourselves the question: "when Nature made such a marvelously designed product as man, why should it require such a huge and complex system to keep him healthy? Why the millions of drugs and medications? Why the millions of doctors, hospitals, and clinics? Did Nature slip up somewhere?"

We have to be careful when we raise this question with others, because we are likely to be dismissed as hopelessly out of step with the times. Yet raising this question will take us to the root of our healthcare problems, and we cannot escape the answer that our life-style is the root cause of most of our healthcare problems.

So we have a choice -- keep on spending trillions on our present system, and keep bemoaning the increasing costs and inadequate returns, or spend a lot less (still billions, I am sure) and train people to live more in step with Nature.

This does not mean going back to living in the trees again. What does it mean, practically? I dont know! But that's where we need to spend a few billions --- funding research and action programs aimed at developing a life-style which we can all live by, compatible with our civilization, but which does not foul up the beautiful machine that Nature made. A life-style which allows us to continue to make our marvelous scientific discoveries, which are then used to advance our unfoldment as a species.

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Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.: Leveraging research into healthcare quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 - 18:01
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The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other nation, yet numerous studies have found that there is reall y no relationshipbetween spending and the quality of care.
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