Three Levers for Better Budgeting

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A timely new book by veteran public finance experts at the International Monetary Fund describes how budget and finance reforms have evolved over the past two decades in more advanced countries.  While their book doesn’t contain any magic formula for success, it does provide a useful context for understanding what is going on in the field.  It also provides some poor comfort for the fact that what the U.S. is facing is not uncommon and that there may be some avenues for being more successful in the future.

Weekly Round-up: October 25, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Looking ahead at key challenges and opportunities for government

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The Center’s new report is the result of multiple interviews with government leaders, an assessment of research and reports on challenges and opportunities from the Center and many other sources; and a roundtable involving key government, academic, and industry officials last May.  

Weekly Round-up: November 01, 2013

Submitted by on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 21:34

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Bill Eggers writes about "The Solution Economy" in Fast CoExist, arguing, "The companies working to better society and the planet are creating their own economy, but it's up to us--and our governments--whether or not they succeed."

New Report: Federal Ideation Programs: Challenges and Best Practices

Submitted by on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 21:32

The IBM Center for The Business of Government, is pleased to present a new report, Federal Ideation Programs: Challenges and Best Practices, by Professor Gwanhoo Lee, of the Kogod School of Business at American University.

Trend 1: Performance

Submitted by on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 21:26

But it has been a long road.  In 2011, two European academics conducted a meta-analysis of 519 studies on performance-oriented management reforms undertaken across Europe in the previous two decades to determine if they resulted in improved processes, outputs, or outcomes.  They concluded the answer was “yes,” but not a resounding “yes.”  Their analyses showed 68 percent of the studies found improvements in administrative processes and activities, 44 percent in programmatic outputs, and 53

Weekly Round-up: November 08, 2013

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Trend 2: Risk

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

Given budget austerity and increasingly complex challenges facing government executives, managing risk in the public sector has increasingly taken on new significance. Risks take on many forms, including national security risks via cyber­attacks, economic risks from natural disasters, budget and program risks, or privacy risk. However, government leaders lack an accepted culture and framework in which to properly understand, manage, and communicate risk.

A Look at STEM Education: A Cross-Agency Priority Goal

Submitted by on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 21:18

Since the late 1950s, after the Russians launched Sputnik to the surprise of America, the federal government has promoted the development of a national workforce skilled in the sciences as a national security priority.  But the government also invests in developing similar skills for the federal workforce, given the hundreds of thousands of scientists, engineers, computer specialists, and doctors its employs.

Predicting Famine Through Analytics

Submitted by on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 21:15

The Famine Early Warning System is an interagency network among federal agencies and the United Nations that began in 1985, using scientific data to target about $1.5 billion in food aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to those who need it most.  Participating federal agencies include the U.S.

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