IBM Center for The Business of Government

• The Necessity of Government Digital Service. From across the pond comes this blog post by Carl Haggerty, "Does local government need a local government digital service?"  Though the post (as its name implies) focuses squarely on local government, the lessons are applicable to all levels of government, and the answer to the title's question, as one would guess, is a ringing affirmative.
• Foursquare and Flickr, for Example.

The President’s FY 2013 budget announced the first set of cross-agency priority goals – seven focus on mission-related goals such as doubling the number of U.S. exports by 2014, and seven focus on mission-support goals, such as closing critical skill gaps in the federal workforce. “Lead government officials” were named to lead each of these goals. How will they choose to approach their tasks? A friend just sent me a copy of a new book “Networks that Work,” by Paul Vandeventer and Myrna Mandell.

How is the Federal Acquisition Service managing in an era of fiscal constraint? Steven Kempf, Commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service joins me this week on The Business of Government Hour to explore these questions and so much more.

FAS Commissioner Steve Kempf on the value of a centralized provider as GSA:

Challenges facing GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service

ely identified agency “high priority performance goals” after he took office in 2009. It’s a solid start, but finding the information in one list wasn’t easy.