Vanessa Pawlak and Helen Franklin

Submitted by on Mon, 07/10/2023 - 11:56

Vanessa Pawlak, Partner, IBM Government Health & Human Services Global Leader

The Future of Global Health and Social Wellness

Submitted by on Mon, 07/10/2023 - 11:27

Multiple factors are converging rapidly to drive necessary transformation in health care across the world. Three key factors drive transformational change:

Weekly Roundup: June 26-30, 2023

Submitted by on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 12:42

Explore the June 2023 Agency Priority Goal Updates. Agency Priority Goals, or APGs, are an agency’s near-term, implementation-focused priorities that the heads of each major federal agency set every two years. On June 29th, the Office of Management and Budget published the FY 2023 Q2 updates on Performance.gov. These goals serve as steppingstones towards long-term objectives outlined in the agency’s strategic plan.

Announcing the Center’s 25th Anniversary Challenge Grant Competition Recipients

Submitted by on Mon, 06/26/2023 - 14:26

Earlier this year, our Center welcomed proposals that described the future of government management and operations and how innovations could drive agency missions forward.  We received dozens of impactful essays and are grateful to all of the applicants who brought ideas forward. The finalists will write as individual subject matter experts, and will prepare an essay expanding their vision for a compendium later this year. Summaries of each essay follow.

Conversation with Bob Westbrooks on Left Holding the Bag: A Watchdog’s Account of How Washington Fumbled its Covid Test

Submitted by on Mon, 06/26/2023 - 09:38

What is the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) and how does the PRAC conduct oversight? What are the most effective ways to combat fraud related to the pandemic response? What is meant by agile oversight and how does it differ from a traditional oversight approach?  Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Bob Westbrooks, author, Left Holding the Bag: A Watchdog’s Account of How Washington Fumbled its Covid Test and former Executive Director of the PRAC.

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Monday, June 26, 2023 - 09:28
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Bob Westbrooks
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Weekly Roundup: June 19-23, 2023

Submitted by on Fri, 06/23/2023 - 16:20

GAO Claims $600B of Savings, Points to Billions More Possible. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is helping Federal agencies to save taxpayer money on duplicative programs, offices, and initiatives, saving roughly $600 billion since GAO began this work in 2011 – with more cost-saving opportunities available.

Ruth Gordon

Submitted by on Tue, 06/20/2023 - 11:50

Ruth is the Operations Manager for the IBM Center for The Business of Government. She oversees the Center's operations, finances, website, and social media channels. During her 20-year tenure at IBM (and PricewaterhouseCoopers pre-merger), Ruth also worked on a variety of government and nonprofit technology and process improvement projects. Government agencies included the FCC, GSA, HHS, SSA, and USAID.

Preparing governments for future shocks: Collaborating to build resilient supply chains

Submitted by on Tue, 06/20/2023 - 08:54

During the last three years, a perfect storm of natural and geopolitical events has disrupted worldwide supply chains in ways that few governments could have anticipated. Even as nations, businesses, and consumers strive to normalize, new interruptions have created bottlenecks in an enormously complicated and interconnected system of purchasing, operation, distribution, integration, and consumption.

Weekly Roundup June 12-16, 2023

Submitted by on Fri, 06/16/2023 - 15:26

 NEW GAO SCIENCE & TECH SPOTLIGHT: GENERATIVE AI. Generative AI systems—like ChatGPT and Bard—create text, images, audio, video, and other content. This Spotlight examines the technology behind these systems that are surging in popularity. These systems are trained to recognize patterns and relationships in massive datasets and can quickly generate content from this data when prompted by a user. These growing capabilities could be used in education, government, medicine, law, and other fields.

Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

Submitted by on Wed, 06/14/2023 - 16:34

 “Inside government…,” notes Jennifer Pahlka, former U.S. deputy chief technology officer, “the digital revolution played out very differently. Even as our expectations about the immediacy and accuracy of services have skyrocketed, the implementation of laws has become anything but easier.

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