This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Tuesday, July 12, 2022 Dan Chenok Cloud computing, or the use of remote servers and services hosted on the internet, has rapidly become the norm for information technology in the federal government, and for good reason. Blog Co-Authors: Rasheedat Osei-Acheampong, partner and delivery (more…)
Performance Measurements Can Help Programs. It Can Also Hurt Them.
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Monday, July 11, 2022 Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene In the decades that we’ve researched state and local government management, we’ve often written about the critical ways in which performance measurement can improve the delivery of services and the accomplishment of program (more…)
Weekly Roundup July 4-8, 2022
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Friday, July 8, 2022 Michael J. Keegan Highlighting articles and insights in public management and leadership that we have found of interest for the week ending July 8, 2022 Quarterly President’s Management Agenda and Agency Priority Goal Updates. The Office of Management (more…)
Priority Open Recommendations: Environmental Protection Agency
This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found In June 2021, GAO identified 22 priority recommendations for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since then, EPA has implemented ten of those recommendations by, among other things, requiring states to report quarterly to EPA on the number of lead service lines (more…)
Defense Industrial Base: DOD Should Take Actions to Strengthen Its Risk Mitigation Approach
This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The Department of Defense’s (DOD) Industrial Base Policy office does not yet have a consolidated and comprehensive strategy to mitigate risks to the industrial base—the companies that develop and manufacture technologies and weapon systems for DOD. The office is using a (more…)
Collaborative Networks: The Next Frontier in Data Driven Management
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Collaborative Networks.pdf Julia Carboni Report Co-Authors The need to improve the customer experience for those seeking assistance from the federal government has long been acknowledged. The recent focus on customer experience is evident in the President’s Management Agenda (PMA), the Customer Experience (more…)
Agile Regulation Gateway to the Future: A New Framework
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Wednesday, June 29, 2022 G. Edward DeSeve “Regulation can struggle to keep pace with innovation, hindering the introduction of new ideas, products and business models, while leaving citizens with outdated protections. A more agile, flexible approach to regulation is needed.” From: Agile (more…)
What Systems Modernization really means for Federal Government Leadership
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Tuesday, June 28, 2022 Dr. Danny Harris Pleased to post my first blog as a Center Visiting Fellow. In 2017, the Modernizing Government Technology Act authorized the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF). The funding is slated for the replacement of federal mission-critical systems (more…)
Six proven steps to Zero Trust
This post first appeared on Federal Times. Read the original article. First, it was the attack on SolarWinds, then the Colonial Pipeline, and most recently, Log4j. Unfortunately, these successful and very public cyber exploits weren’t the first, and they certainly won’t be the last. Federal leaders are no longer surprised when attackers identify the next (more…)
High-Risk: Bureau of Indian Education Has Addressed Some Management Weaknesses, but Additional Work Is Needed on Others
This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found Since GAO last reported on the high-risk status of the Bureau of Indian Education’s (BIE) administration of schools for American Indian students in March 2021, the agency has fully met two of the five criteria for removal from the High-Risk List. (more…)