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This report is intended to spark a discussion of how to create a cadre of experienced career senior executives who can lead major, cross-agency initiatives on national priorities
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Budget stress in the wake of the recent recession has been an incentive for many U.S. local officials to explore new cooperative relationships with neighboring jurisdictions. County governments are in a strategic position to develop shared service projects and interlocal agreements for service delivery.
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Zeemering and Delabbio present a discussion of the three preconditions
for successful shared service implementations.
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The IBM Center is releasing an update to its 2009 “The Operator’s Manual for the New Administration” for the use of new executives in the federal government. This updated chapter reflects statutory and administrative changes since 2009 and provides insights on how executives can improve collaboration between their agencies and other stakeholders sharing a common mission priority.
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Each edition of The Business of Government magazine seeks to highlight the latest trends and best practices for improving government effectiveness. We do this by introducing you to the efforts of key government executives, the work of public management practitioners, and the insights of leading academics; and the differing ways they tackle many of the pressing public management issues facing us today.
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Most government activities are managed through programs
in agencies. The pace of technology and business change is
causing leading organizations that have always collaborated
to move to a new model of managing activities from a cross-program
view, leveraging resources to more effectively serve
a citizen or business.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
NOAA, relies on information and technology to carry out
its mission—to understand and predict changes in climate,
weather, oceans, and coasts.
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How do you organize a cross-agency collaborative effort to get results no single agency could accomplish on its own? The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has developed an inventory of “mechanisms that the federal government uses to lead and implement interagency collaboration,” along with a self-assessment checklist to consider when using them.
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Most government activities are managed through programs in agencies. The pace of technology and business changes are causing leading organizations - that have always collaborated - to move to a new model of managing activities from a cross-program view, leveraging resources to more effectively serve a citizen or business.
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How do leaders of very diverse agencies direct ambitious change? How do they achieve significant
goals? What strategies do they use to overcome opposition and win allies? How do specific
organizational and political contexts affect strategies and outcomes?
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Since the creation of the IBM Center for The Business of
Government over fourteen years ago, it has been our goal to
help public sector leaders and managers address real-world
problems by sponsoring independent, third-party research
from top minds in academe and the nonprofit sector.
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