- Home
- Topics
- Improving performance
- Implementing the Recovery Act
- Transforming the workforce
- Collaborating across boundaries
- Contracting & acquisition
- Fostering transparency & democracy
- Managing finances & budgets
- Improving healthcare
- Conserving energy & the environment
- Using technology
- Security, power & intelligence
- Strengthening cybersecurity
- New to government?
- Magazine
- Radio hour
- Reports
- Blogs
- About us
Featured
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 on people reflects advances based on extensive practical research published by the Center since 2009 on changes, challenges, and opportunities surrounding the workplace, the nature of work, and the workforce charged with performing the activities of government.
On the Radio Hour
In the magazine
Two professional associations, the American Society for
Public Administration and the National Academy of Public
Administration, have joined to sponsor a...
On the blog
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 16:41
Public Service Recognition Week recognizes a lot of hidden talent across the government. But is that talent always...
View All content in Transforming the workforce ( 71-80 of 237)
Ms. McGrath leads the Department’s efforts to better synchronize, integrate and coordinate DoD business operations
0 comments
1,752 recommendations
Federal agencies have developed “open government plans” in response to an early directive by President Obama.
3 comments
1,581 recommendations
The mission of the National Guard Bureau Joint Process Improvement Office is to create a culture of continuous improvement by deploying tools, training, and mentoring soldiers and airmen throughout the National Guard.
0 comments
1,366 recommendations
“Abracadabra,” “hocus-pocus” and “presto-chango” are clichéd magic words designed to deliver a variety of wishes to boys and girls in books. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t, and sometimes they have perverse effects. The lesson, typically, is to be careful of what you wish for.
0 comments
1,075 recommendations
Dr. Mergel discusses the managerial, cultural, behavioral, and technological issues that public managers face in starting and maintaining Wikis.
0 comments
1,712 recommendations
As with each edition, this issue of The Business of Government magazine has as its focus the core mission of the Center—connecting research to practice as a means to improve public management. We do this by bringing together insights and perspectives, blended with an equal measure of practicality and reflection, from an array of government leaders, public managers, thinkers, practitioners, and academics.
0 comments
1,823 recommendations
This guide offers ideas on how agencies can start closing the gaps between managers and staff, as well as tips on how to use the Staff/Manager Alignment Score to supplement and refine efforts to improve the workplace.
0 comments
1,417 recommendations
Big problems call for big solutions. And so, with the states mired in historically unpleasant fiscal times, many have decided they need to go far beyond Band-Aid solutions in favor of tourniquets and transplants.
0 comments
1,346 recommendations
In a new report titled “Fit for Purpose?” - Richard Boyle and Muiris MacCarthaigh with the Institute of Public Administration in Dublin identify some of the key challenges for Irish public administration and some of the priority areas where change is necessary. This report may not be your idea of fun “summer reading,” but it may prove to be the kind of thinking we need to consider as we too think about how well suited our government is for the challenges ahead.
0 comments
1,532 recommendations
This article is adapted from Scott P. Overmyer, “Implementing
Telework: Lessons Learned from Four Federal Agencies”
(Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of
Government, 2010).
0 comments
834 recommendations