A Hint of Things To Come?
With the launch of Federaltransparency.gov, the Recovery Board can utilize what it has learned about transparency to monitor programs that fall outside the Recovery Act. The Recovery Board is taking...
View ArticleInterview with Earl Devaney
The chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board shares potent insights from an insider’s point of view, including why transparency about the stimulus act can be like a sign that...
View ArticleState Oversight Headaches
State oversight officials were shortchanged by ARRA, as statistics demonstrate. One of the major “lessons learned” in the Recovery Act was that the capacity of state auditors and comptrollers to...
View ArticleObama's FY 2012 Management Initiatives
Attention to the FY 2012 budget’s performance and management initiatives have been overwhelmed by the enormity of the proposed budget cuts by both the President and the Congress, and the resolution of...
View ArticleLeading Financial Management at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
The Chief Financial Officer as a strategic business partner: What is HUD’s financial management strategy and how is HUD using financial data to inform its management decision-making? Throughout its...
View ArticleOMB Unveils Its Performance.Gov Website
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...
View ArticleSteve Kempf, Commissioner, GSA's Federal Acquisition Service on The Business...
What is the value of a centralized provider, like GSA, and its Federal Acquisition Service? How does the Federal Acquisition Service foster government operations that are effective, sustainable, and...
View ArticleNew Thinking in Accountability
The increasing chorus of calls for more accountability reaches beyond recent demands for firing officials at the IRS, VA, and GSA for various perceived misdeeds. Just what is accountability, and how...
View ArticleTrend 1: Performance
Over the past two decades, the goal of those in the “performance movement” across the globe has been to change the culture of government agencies to be more results-oriented and performance-focused in...
View ArticleImplementing the DATA Act: Encouraging Signs
President Obama has said he will sign new legislation that will have far-reaching effects on federal agencies and hundreds of thousands of recipient of federal funds – grantees, contractors,...
View ArticleINTERVIEW WITH: Beth Blauer, director of Maryland’s StateStat
Beth Blauer is director of the Maryland Executive Department’s StateStat office. In that role, she oversees Maryland’s much-praised efforts to manage the state through widely disseminated performance...
View ArticleCalifornia's take on Recovery.gov and the State's New Stimulus Website
Shortly after we posted our last blog entry ("Before the Phone Starts Ringing. . .) we heard from Eric W Alborg the Communications Director for the California Recovery Task Force. He had some very...
View ArticleWanna see a Governor get results? Keep reading.
We've been concerned about the disconnect that sometimes exists between stimulus oversight offices and state performance measurement efforts. On March 15th, we wrote about this a bit, and the...
View ArticleReading list
We wanted to catch you up on two important reports about the stimulus that came out of the Inspector General community in recent weeks. For a sobering account of capacity issues at the federal level...
View Article"Are you spending more time to report than to deal with programmatic...
We like transparency. We like statistics. We like up-to-date data. But even we feel pity for stimulus grantees faced with a monsoon of reporting requirements. Beginning with March 30th reports, the...
View Article"Desperately Seeking a Watchdog"
Today, in an editorial, the New York Times called for a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed leader of the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Noting that the interim Comptroller General,...
View ArticleFrom the auditor’s seat
In upcoming weeks, we’ll be talking with local and state auditors about their observations about the Recovery Act and how it’s affecting their work. If you’re curious to see some examples of how local...
View ArticleManaging Risk in Government: An Introduction to Enterprise Risk Management
Magazine edition: Spring 2010 Edition Spring 2010 The next contribution to this forum, based on an IBM Center report written by Karen Hardy, explores the benefits of an enterprise-wide approach to risk...
View ArticleGuidance from the Top
Watch Washington's Gov. Gregoire in action at a new accountability forum on the Recovery Act In the twenty years that we’ve been writing about government management, we’ve noted on many occasions how...
View ArticleFighting Fraud: Spreading New Techniques
The emphasis on oversight and accountability in the Recovery Act may yield a much improved approach to curtailing fraud We’ve been mulling over the ways the Recovery Act will affect government life...
View ArticleOf Fixtures and Fraud
The idea that a contractor’s past history should influence its use by the federal government is obvious. Implementing that idea isn’t so easy, though. As we wrote yesterday, The Recovery Act’s...
View ArticlePennsylvania: A Window on Stimulus Spending
Government hasn't been very good at answering the query: 'So what?' says Pennsylvania's accountability officer. But the state's stimulus website is trying to help address that very question. With a...
View ArticleAccountability: "It can't be looking over someone's shoulder"
The Chief Accountability Officer in Pennsylvania shares his thoughts about the impact of the Recovery Act on government, and his state's push to improve how it measures performance. Several weeks ago,...
View ArticleIt’s Still about Improving Mission Effectiveness
Driving cost savings across the Federal government - a week in review. This week, Debra Cammer Hines, our Vice President of Public Sector Consulting, shared her perspective on detailed approaches that...
View ArticleSmarter Governing in Challenging Times
Magazine edition: Spring 2009 Edition President Barack Obama says the big problems we face offer new opportunities for doing things differently. He has put forth an audacious agenda for change that...
View ArticleKaren Lee
Promote until: Fri, 12/04/2015Intro text: What are the requirements of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (Data Act)? How is the Data Act being implemented? What are some of the...
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Weekly Roundup: April 4 - 8, 2016
Articles from across the Web that we at the IBM Center for The Business of Government found interesting, week of April 4-8, 2016 John KamenskyA Struggle to Share. Federal News Radio reports: “Federal...
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Leaders Speak: Dr. David Shulkin on Reforming the Delivery of Veterans...
Dr. David Shulkin, Under Secretary for Health at VA joined me on The Business of Government Hour this week to discuss VA’s healthcare mission, strategic priorities, challenges faced, innovations...
View ArticleInteragency Performance Targets: A Case Study of New Zealand’s Results Programme
From 2012 to 2017, the New Zealand government has held groups of senior public servants collectively responsible for achieving performance targets for improving persistent crosscutting problems. New...
View ArticleMaking Government’s Massive Programs Work: Now It’s the Law
Over the past few decades, the private sector has recognized program management as a key factor in enhancing organizational performance with respect to complex and challenging change initiatives....
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