Weekly Round-up: October 8, 2010

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step Four, Co-ordinator

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If most of government, and Gov 2.0, is about ordinary people doing ordinary (though necessary, ennobling, and underappreciated) things, Coordinators are the people who are doing extraordinary things.  Both within government and beyond it, coordinators are the ones who are looking at the big picture and creating the tools that co-deliverers and creators use.  

What do coordinators do?

Congress Hits "Refresh" Button on Results Act

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Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) summarized the need for a refresh when he introduced his bill with bipartisan support:  "Producing information does not by itself improve performance and experts from both sides of the aisle agree that the solutions developed in 1993 have not worked.”

Weekly Round-up: Palindrome Issue: 10/01

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Regulatory Partnerships: Good or Bad? (Part 2)

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For example, Vice President Gore’s reinvention lead, Bob Stone, noted in 1998 that: “In Kansas City, the OSHA team offered training and a voluntary self-inspection to meatpacking companies with high injury rates. Working in partnership with OSHA, these companies reduced lost workdays by 15 percent. Even better, in response to their training, the employees identified and corrected 840 workplace hazards – far more than [OSHA] inspectors ever could.”

Regulatory Partnerships: Good or Bad? (Part 1)

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Three recent IBM Center reports present a different perspective, showing the value of regulatory partnerships.  These reports offer lessons learned on how to create and effectively maintain regulatory partnerships so they don’t result in the failures highlighted in a penetrating Washington Post article “

Weekly Round-up - September 24, 2010

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

President Obama nominates Gene Dodaro

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President Obama has announced his intention to nominate Gene Dodaro to be the next Comptroller General and head of the Government  Accountability Office.    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hss issued a congratulatory statement as well, saying "As the Comptroller General, Gene Dodaro will continue to uphold the public trust as the leader of the GAO.

Citizen 2.0, Step 3: Co-Deliverer

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In his book, "The McDonaldization of Society," George Ritzer points out an invisible obvious fact: McDonald's is able to keep its costs low in part becuase its patrons perform essential functions for the store.  They pour their own drinks, bus their own tables, get their own napkins and other table settings, and in some locations even add their own condiments to their burgers.

Rise of Centralized Mechanistic Decisionmaking

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Professor Bhide notes that managers recognize the need for balance between centralized command-and-control and individual initiative and judgment.  But he observes that in recent times “a new form of centralized control has taken root – one that is the work not of old-fashioned autocrats, committees, or rule books but of statistical models and algorithms.” 

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