Weekly Roundup: Feb 10 - Feb 14, 2020

Submitted by on Fri, 02/14/2020 - 14:20

Michael J. Keegan

President’s Management Agendas: What Insights Do the PMA’s Origins Have for the Future?

Submitted by on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 09:34

This week, the release of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Proposal was accompanied by several management chapters with information about the President’s Management Agenda (PMA).  The PMA reflects a set of initiatives and activities intended to improve the effectiveness and efficiency by which Federal agencies serve their constituents and carry out their mission.  While muc

Modernizing the U.S. Federal Data System

Submitted by on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 14:03

An effective and efficient U.S. federal government requires evidence about where needs are greatest, what works and what does not work, where and how programs could be improved, and how programs of yesterday may no longer be suited for today. Having access to timely, accurate, reliable statistical data enables the federal government to make reasoned and disciplined decisions about where to target resources to get the largest possible return for the American taxpayer. The federal government’s statistical agencies and programs play a vital role in generating that data.

When Bigger IS Better

Submitted by on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 09:14

This team of registered nurses is part of a national network created by the Nurse-Family Partnership -- a 40-year old non-profit that visits the homes of low-income, first-time mothers to help “transform the lives of vulnerable, low-income mothers pregnant with their first child.”

Scaling Evidence-Based Programs in Child Welfare

Submitted by on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 08:59

This report discusses governments addressing this challenge in three different program areas—those highlighted in the 2018 Family First Prevention Services Act as important to reducing child maltreatment by increasing investments in three kinds of prevention services—home visiting, mental health services, and substance abuse services.

Lester points to two key factors that influence success or failure in scaling evidence- based programs:

In Workforce Planning, Data Is King

Submitted by on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 14:58

We occasionally did the same for cities and counties. The news in those days, unsurprisingly, was not happy.

Weekly Roundup: Feb 3 - Feb 7, 2020

Submitted by on Fri, 02/07/2020 - 14:39

Michael J. Keegan

Agencies look to 'low code' to speed development. Increasingly federal agencies are looking to easy-to-use "low code" development techniques to build public-facing apps.

Designing, developing, and deploying artificial intelligence systems: Lessons from and for the public sector - part three

Submitted by on Fri, 02/07/2020 - 13:00

Previous Center authors Kevin Desouza and Gregory Dawson and I recently wrote a paper on Artificial Intelligence and the public sector that was published in Business Horizons, a Journal of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.  This article will appear on our blog in a three-part series to include background infor

Reinventing Government: A Principle-Driven Reform Initiative

Submitted by on Wed, 02/05/2020 - 13:52

Background.  Several days earlier, the three of us had been invited to share our ideas on how the vice president might proceed with his new mandate from the president to “reinvent the government,” where the vice president had to deliver a plan of action to the president in six months.  Gore’s newly-appointed advisor, Elaine Kamarck, received the task of getting this off the ground and she had invited the three of us to talk with her, based on the advice of David Osborne, a co-author of the best-selling book

Providing Mission-Support Services Across Government

Submitted by on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 14:21

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is working with federal agencies on multiple fronts to save taxpayer dollars and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the federal government. This unique mission support role ties back to GSA’s founding in 1949 when President Truman sought to create one agency to help the federal government avoid senseless duplication, excess cost, and confusion in handling supplies and providing space.

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