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From Data to Decisions II

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 - 14:23
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In our 2011 report on analytics use in the federal government, "From Data to Decisions: The Power of Analytics," we wrote about the tremendous budget pressures federal agencies face at a time when there is great public demand for government to be more effective and efficient. This report’s release sparked an overwhelmingly positive response from agency leaders and federal performance management practitioners who asked, “Where do we go from here?
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Reorganization Magic

Monday, July 25th, 2011 - 9:40
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Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
We’re reminded of the lilting yet ominous line from the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow: “And the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true.”
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A Conversation with Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Friday, June 4th, 2010 - 15:33
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Michael J. Keegan
Disaster can strike any community at any time. It can take many forms, building over time or hitting suddenly without warning. In the last decade, whether as a result of natural or man-made disasters, the nation’s emergency-response apparatus has faced enormous challenges. Overcoming these challenges and forging a national emergency-response network for the 21st century requires innovation and teamwork.

Passionate About Collaboration

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 - 21:07
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Leading the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 - 4:21
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Michael J. Keegan
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Craig Fugate interview

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 - 20:00
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Mr. Fugate began his emergency management career as a volunteer firefighter, Emergency Paramedic, and finally as a Lieutenant with the Alachua County Fire Rescue.
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Wed, 02/17/2010
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Craig Fugate
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W. Craig Fugate began serving in the position of Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in May 2009.
  Prior to coming to FEMA, Mr. Fugate served as Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM). In that role since 2001, he managed 138 full-time staff and a budget of $745 million. His agency coordinated disaster response, recovery, preparedness and mitigation efforts with each of the state's 67 counties and local governments.
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Jumpstarting Performance Management

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The Next Government

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 - 7:17
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Norman M. Macdonald

What the next administration will be facing is a Civil Service that has had it's human and material infrastructures gutted to a point of no return. We should be talking on how and what the rebuilding should be based on not on reinventing or cosmic ideas. I am a 75 year old retired Federal Civil Servant who spent 47 years in the DC area and was involved in a number of cross departmental project including a long term detail to the National Performance Review (reinventing government). I have lived for the last four years in the Verde Valley of Northern Arizona and have been active with a number of nonprofits plus keeping contact with folks I worked with on reinvention.
What I have observed is a movement towards collaboration between the local feds, nonprofits and local governments which is aided by various interest specific electronic networks. It is a ground up approach that is being feed by sheer necessity. Web 2.0 seems to be part of the equation. This is the basis for a ground up approach that would move the Federal Government toward the "radical center"

07/29/2008 - 18:10
Alan Feinberg

I am working on an initiative to send an open letter to Vivek Kundra,

President Obama's new information technology advisor, about the

Department of Homeland Security plan for St Elizabeths. Will you join

me in this?

The letter will argue thoughtfully and succinctly that this plan,

which would concentrate DHS staff in a massive and costly new

Anacostia headquarters, is a bad idea in terms of national security as

well as financially and environmentally.

It will urge instead a fiberoptic-connected dispersal of DHS around

the Capital Region in offices located near where staff already live.

The letter will criticize obsolete government thinking that favors

enormous, centralized structures. It will contend that forced

centralization is unlikely to solve the organizational-culture

problems that have prevented security agencies from collaborating

better. Instead, DHS leaders must instead manage smarter and share

information better.

The letter will criticize the idea that the DHS plan is an economic

solution for the District, arguing instead that Ward 8, DC’s poorest

ward, won’t be revitalized until it's made part of a real solution,

which is a creative regional economic development plan. It will also

take issue with the immense financial cost of the proposed compound

and its environmental cost as a com
muter magnet.

A major aim of the document will be to elevate the DHS discussion from

a local issue to the national issue (at White House level) that it

deserves to be. There is more to this important matter than the

District issues that have been dominating recent discussion of it.

I believe an appropriately crafted document may be able to help save

the Government from a costly mistake which, once made, will be very

difficult and expensive to fix.

I have asked my friend the writer N.J. Slabbert to produce a first

draft of the letter for discussion with concerned associates. He has

previously published well-researched articles about this matter in The

Washington Post, The Harvard International Review, Homeland Security

Today and Urban Land Magazine.

Please let me know whether you are interested to work with us on this,

and to co-sign an appropriately worded letter aimed at helping the

Government make a wise decision, and at elevating this into a White

House matter as it deserves to be.

Sincerely Yours,

Alan Feinberg, RA, AICP

Frederick, MD

(301) 606.6717

03/09/2009 - 11:50
John Kamensky

Hi Alan -- Thanks for the invite. We at the IBM Center cannot join you in drafting your letter, but there may be other readers who may see merit in your idea that a distributed homeland security effort may be more effective than a centralized homeland security effort!

03/09/2009 - 12:43
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A Model for Increasing Innovation Adoption Lessons Learned from the IRS e-file Program

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Transparency is one of the current buzzwords, which is notnecessarily bad. A keystone of democracy is accountabilityand transparency, i.e., providing information is one way forthe government to be accountable. Since no one wants tolook bad, transparency can be a major impetus for programimprovement.
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