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Finding Bright Spots

Monday, January 25th, 2010 - 17:36
The latest issue of FastCompany magazine has a terrific piece by Chip and Dan Heath, “Find a Bright Spot and Clone It.”  While it uses private sector examples, their insights apply equally to government.

Veterans Affairs: "Transformation 21" and Beyond

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 - 23:55
The Department of Veterans Affairs, like HUD, is undertaking significant transformation efforts with congressional support.  Its initial “Transformation 21” plan was framed around its fiscal year 2010 budget.  Subsequently, more is on the way, but it has not yet been fully released.

Leadership Matters

Friday, January 15th, 2010 - 16:30

HUD Transformation Initiative

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 - 16:42
As mentioned here a few days ago in  blog entry on innovation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been given in fiscal year 2010, what seems to be a large pot of money and new authority to conduct a transformation initiative in four areas that have been historically underfunded in HUD as well as most other agencies: Research, evaluation, and program metrics Program demonstrations

Chances to Innovate

Friday, January 8th, 2010 - 23:32
Two departments received special authorities this past year that are intended to improve their abilities to manage.  It will be interesting to watch to see how they use these authorities.  If these agencies can demonstrate success, then there’s a good chance that Congress might extend these authorities to other agencies.

Gov/Web 2.0 Predictions for 2010

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 - 18:11
This is the time of year for predictions of what is ahead.  Here’s a compilation of various predictions.  Pick those that appeal to you! Federal News Radio: Web 2.0 is Changing Government.  In an interview in late 2009, editor Dorothy Ramienski came to the now-standard conclusion that “Web 2.0 and social networking tools are changing the way the federal government does business.”

Model 4: Performance Governance

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 - 17:53
(a continuation from the December 23, 2009  blog on “Managing Performance”)

Model 3: Performance Management Framework

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 - 20:06
(a continuation from the December 23, 2009  blog on “Managing Performance”)

Model 2: Siloed Performance Systems

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 - 2:04
(a continuation from the December 23, 2009  blog on “Managing Performance”)

Model 1: Performance Administration

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 - 17:44
(a continuation from the December 23, 2009  blog on “Managing Performance”) Bouckaert and Halligan call their first idealized performance management model the “Performance Administration” approach.