Government Performance Community of Practice Update for May 18 to 24, 2013
This list, as well as lists from past weeks and other resources, is also available through the Performance CoP wiki athttp://wiki.gao.gov/wiki/index.php/Government_Performance_Community_of_Practice.
Performance Management
Adam Mazmanian, Federal Computer Week
Federal CIO will take over while a permanent replacement for Jeffrey Zients is found.
Jason Miller, Federal News Radio
The Office of Management and Budget is finalizing a new directive to change federal financial management processes.
Analytics
Stephen Goldsmith, Better, Faster, Cheaper
The ever-growing volume of information created and captured by the modern digitized world is an opportunity for government to reinvent itself.
Mark Rockwell, Federal Computer Week
Big data isn’t the deep well of critical information it’s cracked up to be if the person or systems peering into it don’t know what they’re looking for.
Efficiency/Reorganization
Molly Bernhart Walker, FierceGovernment
GAO’s annual report on overlap and duplication identifies 380 actions to make government more efficient. Despite White House efforts to make meaningful progress in this area, it is hamstrung, said GAO Comptroller General Eugene Dodaro.
John Kamensky, Business of Government
Benjamin Franklin famously said that “time is money.” But does government know how to implement this maxim seriously? Now there is a new study that shows how they can do it!
Amber Corrin, Federal Computer Week
A GAO report, echoing longstanding criticisms, diagnoses the causes of DOD’s sputtering modernization progress.
Charles Prow, ICM Center for the Business of Government
Through fast government, public-sector leaders make time a key performance metric in government efficiency and effectiveness initiatives—time saved by streamlining operations, improving the quality of government services, and reducing barriers to citizen engagement.
Open Government
Adam Mazmanian, Federal Computer Week
U.S. CTO Todd Park believes the government’s Digital Government Strategy will create a ‘treasure trove’ of economic opportunity. One year in, that benefit is in short supply, but other gains are emerging.
Emily Jarvis, GovLoop
An interview with Sheila Campbell, the Director for Excellence in Digital Government at GSA, on how Challenge.gov is a place where government and the public can come together in an innovative way.
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