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.

 

New Report: Controlling Federal Spending by Managing the Long Tail of Procurement

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The IBM Center for The Business of Government is today releasing a new report, Controlling Federal Spending by Managing the Long Tail of Procurement, by David C.Wyld, Laborde Professor of Management, College of Business, Southwestern Louisiana University.

In this report, Professor Wyld provides the first quant

Five Instagram Feeds for Government

Submitted by on Thu, 01/25/2018 - 14:22

When Pinterest was approved for government use, I shared 10 boards I’d like to see (note: #8 is now live!).  Now that GSA has approved Instagram for use by federal agencies, here is a more modest five users/feeds I’d follow:

Five Steps to Building an Evidence-Based Culture in Government

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OMB’s guidance to agencies on the development of their FY 2015 budgets promises that “OMB will issue a separate memo at a later date that encourages the increased use of evidence and evaluation, including rigorous testing of innovative strategies to build new knowledge of what works.” This encouragement comes on top of a foundation already under development in many agencies. 

 

Weekly Round-up: July 12, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Another international edition!

State, Local, and International Evidence-Based Government Initiatives

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While the federal government is undertaking a number of evidence-based program initiatives, the “moneyball government” movement is broader, encompassing initiatives at the state, local, and even international levels.

 

Examples of State-Level Efforts

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