Public-Sector Information Security: A Call to Action for Public-Sector CIOs

This report expands upon the themes and issues raised at a forum on Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection sponsored by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). At the forum, held in November 2001, conference participants identified a series of actions designed to combat emerging cyber-threats to security and critical infrastructure. Subsequent to the Forum, NASCIO asked Don Heiman, former Chief Information Officer of the State of Kansas, to develop recommendations for improving public-sector information security.

Public-Private Strategic Partnerships: The U.S. Postal Service-Federal Express Alliance

In recent years, postal services around the world have been transformed, adopting private sector operational modes and efficiencies. Services have acquired for-profit firms in delivery, logistics and freight forwarding, or established strategic alliances with them. This project reviews government and for profit postal operation alliances around the world to identify the best practices to guide future alliances. usps, postal service, federal express, Collaboration: Networks and Partnerships

Profiles in Excellence: Conversations with the Best of America's Career Executive Service

This report consists of a series of in-depth interviews with senior executives in government who have been identified as outstanding leaders. The study attempts to determine the characteristics that have most centrally contributed to the success of these senior executives. Leadership

 

Privacy Strategies for Electronic Government

This report provides a framework for understanding the implications of privacy and security in the public domain, the challenges of increasing use of the Internet to deliver government services and information, and the connections and lessons that can be learned from the private sector privacy and security issues and experiences. Technology and E-Government

Preparing for Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Government

This report seeks to fill the gap that exists in understanding the technology readiness of the government workforce and the impact on leveraging wireless technology for e-government applications. Technology and E-Government

Performance Management for Career Executives: A 'Start Where You Are, Use What You Have' Guide

This report describes how career executives can overcome common problems in the design, alignment, use, and communication of performance measures and information. It provides a series of antidotes to the cynicism and fatigue frequently felt by career executives in regard to performance management. The report offers specific advice on actions and approaches career executives can take, and urges career executives to use goals and performance measures as critical aspects of their work.

Performance Leadership: 11 Better Practices That Can Ratchet Up Performance

In the report, Professor Behn moves away from the conventional tenet of public administration to "make the managers manage." Instead, he offers an approach that encompasses eleven "better practices" that he has observed in use by successful public managers over the years. This approach focuses not on individual attributes and virtues, but rather on activities or practices which can spur improvements in program performance.

New Tools for Improving Government Regulation: An Assessment of Emissions Trading and Other Market-Based Regulatory Tools

This report examines the use of market-based regulatory tools by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other federal and state regulatory agencies. These regulatory tools, including emissions trading programs and marketable permits and emission taxes, have been widely heralded as central to the next generation of regulatory laws and programs. They promise to dramatically reduce the cost of achieving environmental goals, giving regulated industries more flexibility, and integrating regulatory requirements into overall business goals.

Moving Toward Market-Based Government: The Changing Role of Government as the Provider

One of President Bush’s five management initiatives is competitive sourcing. The administration has established a goal that the federal government should competitively source 50% of all non-inherently governmental positions by 2005. To achieve this goal will require a major shift in the way government does its business. This project defines competitive sourcing and outsourcing, shows which situations are appropriate to use one or the other, and lists steps for successful implementation.

Moving Toward a More Capable Government: A Guide for Organizational Design

This important report serves as an excellent companion piece to another published report, “Applying 21st-Century Government to the Challenge of Homeland Security,” by Elaine C. Kamarck of Harvard University. The Stanton report examines the organizational dilemma frequently faced by government: when to create or restructure a government agency or instrumentality. The Kamarck report examines three new forms of government that do not involve the creation of new government organizations or instrumentalities: reinvented government, government by network, and government by market.

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