Performance Management
Chris Mihm, Managing Director for Strategic Issues, GAO
Federal News Radio
How the President’s Management Agenda reflects GAO’s work to identify high-risk issues and areas of duplication, fragmentation, and overlap.
Using “C-Stat” in Colorado to drive results-focused human services: An interview with Ki’i Powell, Performance Management Director, Colorado Dept. of Human Services
Andy Feldman, GovInnovator Blog
C-Stat is a strategic management strategy launched in 2012 by the Colorado Department of Human Services. Each of the five offices within CDHS collects performance data on a regular basis and examines those data in monthly C-Stat meetings.

Analytics/Evaluation

Mapping a More Participatory Government
Gadi Ben-Yehuda, Government Executive
From federal spending to broken streetlights, layered data helps citizens.

Collaboration
The budget and interagency collaboration
Ron Sanders, Federal Times
‘Next level’ interagency collaboration requires a management infrastructure that enables it.

Efficiency/Reorganization
Transforming mission and support services in government: An interview with Judy England-Joseph, Partnership for Public Service
Andy Feldman, GovInnovator Blog
The Partnership for Public Service recently released a report describing how agencies and jurisdictions are using consolidated and shared services to improve efficiency, results and customer service.

Innovation
Assessing Innovation Strategies
InnovateGov
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard recently published a 3-part miniseries that explores the process of city innovation and provides instruction to public officials seeking to promote and support these efforts locally.