The Bush Administration had its Results.Gov scorecard. The Obama Administration now has unveiled its Performance.Gov dashboard. Is a dashboard better than a scorecard?
The Bush website provided links to key management initiatives, such as the President’s Management Agenda Scorecard, a list and bios of top political appointees, and a set of agency examples of best practices.
Articles from across the Web that we found interesting, the week of August 22, 2011
Gadi Ben-Yehuda
For 20 years, August has been a "cruel month" in Russia. This August has been no picnic for the US or England, but social media has helped to ameliorate certain events:
As organizations become more complicated, success can often be tied to the degree to which an organization is responsive to customers. This generally happens on the front line.
A new memorandum details four areas for which all Federal Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have authority and “a lead role”: Governance, Commodity IT, Program Management, and Information Security.
Earlier this month, OMB Director Jacob Lew released a memorandum for the heads of all Federal Departments and Agencies, which focused on four areas for which all Federal Chief Informatio
States and localities were the front line for implementation of more than $275 billion in spending via more than 65 programs. They also faced pressures to spend, spend quickly, spend wisely – and report what they did in almost real-time.
Former head of the OMB's Information Policy and Technology discusses three ways his office was affected by and responded to September 11, 2001.
This past week, millions of people here and around the world have remembered the tragedy of 9/11, the bravery shown by so many, and the ways that the world and our lives have changed since that day. So many of us have stories of where they were, what they were doing and thinking, and what happened just before and just after.
