A New Approach to Cybersecurity Across Agencies – the Administration’s Progress Report

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Last week, the Obama Administration released its latest set of reports on government performance toward achieving many high-priority goals, within and across agencies.  As the Center has written previously, public presentation on this topic focuses on outcomes for high-priority goals can incentivize agencies to reach results in key areas that matter for citizens, businesses, and governments.

Weekly Round-up: June 14, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

This week: Nationals.

Thoughts About Government Transformation

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Yesterday, I had the honor of joining a distinguished panel in testifying before Congress about reinventing and transforming government.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on June 18 entitled “Reinventing Government”.  Several leaders with great experience in Federal government leadership and management issues pre

Weekly Round-up: June 21, 2013

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Creating an Evidence-Based Government

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Policymakers are fixated on short-term budget austerity measures such as furloughs, pay freezes, and conference and travel spending.

A Call for Research into Key Challenges Facing Government

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Last week, The IBM Center for The Business of Government released our most recent “Call for Research Proposals” – a guide to what key challenges faced by government will benefit from Center-sponsored reports in the next several years.  The Center solicits proposals that result in reports that have sound research, insightful findings, and actionable recommendations for government leaders and public managers in the following areas of interest – challenges that we consider to be six driver

Weekly Round-up: June 28, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

With a hack hack here and a hack hack there.

IBM Center Funds Nine New Research Projects

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New reports will explore themes of innovation, crowdsourcing, financial management, and performance-based budgeting.

Since the creation of the IBM Center for The Business of Government more than 15 years ago, we have sought to help public sector executives and managers address real-world problems by sponsoring independent, third-party research from top minds in academe and the nonprofit sector.

Four Evidence-Based Initiatives in the Federal Government

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Within OMB, there is an active effort to catalyze agencies to develop and undertake a series of evidence and evaluation initiatives in ways that they can learn from each other and so they can quickly leverage promising practices.

Half Empty or Half Full?

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A recent GAO report on the executive branch’s approach to new requirements in the Government Performance and Results Act recommends that “OMB improve the implementation of the act.” But a sub-theme in the report describes how agencies are actually building a long-term, solid foundation for a performance-driven government.

 

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