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Model 3: Performance Management Framework
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 - 20:06
(a continuation from the December 23, 2009 blog on “Managing Performance”)
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Cutting Contractors
Monday, December 21st, 2009 - 21:53
OMB released a report today, “Acquisition and Contracting Improvement Plans and Pilots: Saving Money and Improving Government,” which follows up on its July 2009 directive that agencies trim 7 percent – about $40 billion -- from their contracting budgets over the next two years by improving their buying processes.
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Performance Reporting: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Friday, December 18th, 2009 - 23:15
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Implementing the Open Gov Directive
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 - 19:21
President Obama’s Open Government Directive was released a week ago with lots of anticipation and a series of deadlines. Now agencies are moving quickly to develop their plans. A series of interesting resources are already popping up to help them:
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Stephen Buckley
As one of the organizers for the Open Government Directive Workshop, , I want people to know they can find out more and easily register to attend (it's free!) by going here:
John Kamensky
Thanks, Steve!
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Data-Driven Performance: The Hearing
Friday, December 11th, 2009 - 15:30
Senator Mark Warner chaired another hearing of his Taskforce on Government Performance, on “Data-Driven Performance: Using Technology to Deliver Results.”
The Obama Administration’s chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, testified. Here are some interesting excerpts from his statement:
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Norman M. Macdonald
John:
I seem to read the use of Cloud Technology in the testimony. About a half hour before I read this blog entry I ordered a netbook that I hope to load with Jolicloud and do some research.
Norm
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Conversations with Leaders: Admiral Thad Allen
Friday, December 11th, 2009 - 8:12
With more than 218 years of service to the nation, the U.S. Coast Guard is a military, multimission maritime organization that safeguards U.S. economic and security interests. We had the pleasure of speaking with Admiral Allen about the Coast Guard modernization, its many successes, and the use of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies. Here's an excerpt.
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FY 2009 Financial and Performance Reports
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 - 15:32
If a tree falls in a forest, did it make a sound?
The November 15th release of federal department and agency annual performance and accountability reports went largely un-noticed. Not a mention in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or Washington Post (even its Federal Page).
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Hal Steinberg
AGA's evaluation of the pilot determined that the PARs and AFRs/APRs serve another very important purpose: process improvement and discipline. The requirement to prepare the reports requires and drives the establishment and improvement of systems necessary to accumulate and report the information. This can produce several benefits.
To issue reports, agencies need to establish or at least improve information systems to accumulate and report the information.
In doing so, agency personnel gain considerable insight into their financial and program operations that they heretofore did not have.
Since stakeholders want the information used for decisionmaking and control to be accurate, reports provide a foundation for a self-assertion and/or an independent attestation of the information's reliability. This would not be available in the absence of the reports.
Since the person providing the assertion or attestation will not be able to check every item in the report, he or she will look to the agency's internal control to assure reliability. This will compel the organization to evaluate and assure that its controls are functioning properly.
Incidentally, the agencies that participated in the pilot for 2008 are not necessarily the same participating for 2009. For instance, Interior prepared an Agency Financial Report.
Jonathan Breul
Thanks Hal. You are right, the Performance and Accountability Reports (PARs) and the Annual Financial Reports and Performance Reports (AFR/APR) serve a number of very important purposes - yet the recently issued PARs received very little attention.
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Open Government: Implementation Guidance
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 - 18:45
The White House released its long-awaited implementation guidance for President Obama’s Open Government initiative, along with links to ongoing agency initiatives and a “Progress Report to
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The Business of Government Magazine - The NEW Fall/Winter 2009 Edition
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 - 8:46
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Citizen Participation: Others Step Out
Monday, December 7th, 2009 - 18:22
The rumors continue about the impending release of the Obama Administration’s implementation directives for greater transparency, citizen participation, and collaboration. But thanks to the power of Twitter, I’ve learned that both the United Kingdom and Australia have released reports that begin to detail their approaches to greater citizen participation. These reports may serve as useful reference points when the Obama directive is released!
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Susanna
finally, White House Open Government Directive to be announced!
Online Dec 8 11amEST
http://bit.ly/5DKKEc
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