Predictive Analytics: How to Prevent Crime from Happening

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City police departments across the country are turning traditional police officers into “data detectives.”  Police departments across the country have adapted business techniques --  initially developed by retailers, such as Netflix and WalMart, to predict consumer behavior -- to predict criminal behavior.  A new IBM Center report, by Dr. Jennifer Bachner at Johns Hopkins University, tells compelling stories of the experiences three cities -- Santa Cruz, CA; Baltimore County, MD; and Richmond, VA – are having in using predictive policing as a new and effective tool to combat crime.

Weekly Round-up: September 27, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

What Does Performance Management Look Like in India?

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Sometimes it is refreshing to look at how other countries approach the challenge of measuring and managing performance in their governments. Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a World Bank seminar where the Secretary of Performance Management for the Government of India described how his country is doing it.

Weekly Round-up: October 04, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Four Elements That Promote Effective Coordination

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“Interagency coordination is an essential ele­ment of effective public leadership,” writes Dr. Andrea Strimling Yodsampa in a new report for the IBM Center on effective practices for interagency coordination, using U.S. civil-military coordination efforts in Afghanistan between 2001- 2009 as a case study.

Weekly Round-up: October 11, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

The Future of Online Citizen Services

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Jimmy Fallon’s Nick Burns – Computer Guy captured a lot of what people loathed (and feared) about computer support techs.  The signature line was the condescending command that Nick gave to his clients as they sat in front of their machines: “Move!”

Baltimore's Outcome Budgeting Approach

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The topic of performance budgeting has been talked about for decades.  Most state governments claim to be doing it.  The Government Accountability Office and others have written numerous studies about how it could and should be done at the federal level.  But the City of Baltimore has put in place an outcome-oriented budgeting system that is now in its fourth year of operation.  What does it look like?

 

Enhancements to the Center's Website (www.businessofgovernment.org)

Submitted by on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 21:53

Over the last 15 years, the IBM Center for The Business of Government has worked with more than 300 authors, from large and small academic institutions and non profit organizations across the globe, who have written reports with deep research and many recommendations about improving government effectiveness.  The Center is pleased to announce a new element of our website that links to this extensive network of experts more directly, by linking to a page for each author along with their publications and areas of expertise.  To locate an author and view the corresponding publications written,

Weekly Round-up: October 18, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

This week is all about data in its many forms and for its many uses:

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