Performance & Management
Coming Soon: A Short Window for Improving Federal Agencies’ Performance
Andrew Feldman & Kathy Stack, Government Executive
For career executives, the time between the presidential election and the inauguration is an opportunity to use evidence and data to advise incoming political appointees on what works and what doesn’t.
Innovation In Government: What the Transition Teams Should Understand
John Kamensky, Government Executive
To get things done in the executive branch, it helps to have a solid plan.
Pay for performance may not work as well for federal workforce
Tom Temin, Federal News Network
The idea of pay for performance has appeal in the federal workplace. The superior performers get rewarded for superior work, thereby helping keep the federal workforce strong and engaged. But is it true? A professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University, Bob Tobias joined to discuss.
Agencies are rethinking performance management in the pandemic era too
Nicole Ogrysko, Federal News Network
Since managers can no longer simply glance over their shoulders and check what their employees are looking at their computer screens, it means they must use specific outcomes as a benchmark of their workers’ performance.
Has the government done a good enough job updating itself?
Tom Temin, Federal Drive
Citizens deeply doubt whether government can deliver on basic promises, basic functions. A related problem is the seemingly diminishing sense of good governance – is the government continuously improving its own processes and competence? Now a book of essays by some well known good government voices offers a long list of ideas for improving things.
Reforming Agencies to be Ready for the Future
Howard Risher, Government Executive
Former Comptroller General David Walker makes a strong case for transforming federal personnel systems to stress values of accountability, integrity and reliability.
Open Data, Analytics, & Data Governance
Data Coalition makes 10 data recommendations for next White House
Dave Nyczepir, FedScoop
The Data Coalition urged the next White House to improve government’s use of data to address challenges like the coronavirus pandemic, as the group released 10 recommendations for the transition Tuesday.
People Want Data Privacy but Don’t Always Know What They’re Getting
Gabriel Kaptchuk, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Rachel Cummings, NextGov
Differential privacy has recently emerged as a leading technique and is being rapidly adopted.
Solving the Army’s data talent problem
Lauren C. Williams, FCW
The Army needs to develop specific skill sets and retool or retrain existing workforce, said Mark Gorak, the director of people analytics for the Assistant Secretary of the Army Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
Agencies Are Not Ready for the Data Tsunami, Report Indicates
Phil Goldstein, FedTech
A recent report from data analytics firm Splunk reveals the challenges public sector agencies face in managing the coming onslaught of data growth.
DOD releases long-awaited data strategy
Lauren C. Williams, FCW
The 14-page document released Oct. 8 outlines the basis for what will become the DOD’s data commandments to apply to “the entire Department of Defense, and its data, on whichever systems that information resides.”
Tajha Chappellet-Lanier, FedScoop
With the advent of the U.S. Chief Technology Officer position in 2009, the concept of digital technology got some prime real estate within the White House and, more broadly, the federal government. But what it means to be the CTO of a country like the United States wasn’t immediately clear.
Pandemic Response, Oversight, Continuity of Operations, and Telework
PRAC builds data transparency to create ‘citizen watchdogs’ for pandemic fraud
Jory Heckman, Federal News Network
To oversee about $3 trillion in spending, Robert Westbrooks, the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee’s executive director, said the committee’s goal is to empower as many “citizen watchdogs” who can scrutinize the data and provide feedback to the committee — as well as provide leads on fraud, waste and abuse.
Trump Administration Develops Governmentwide Office Reopening Guidelines, With Contractor Help
Eric Katz, Government Executive
Masks, distancing and sensors to track employee movement are all part of GSA’s non-binding coronavirus recommendations.
Telework doesn’t suit every worker personality, environment
Tom Temin, Federal News Network
Teleworking has some serious financial, career and social challenges, according to Dr. Kati Peditto. She’s assistant professor of human factors in the department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and she joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.
Customer Service
More County Governments Are Using Chatbots — Here’s How
Ben Miller, Government Technology
Survey data shows that most U.S. counties are either already using chatbots or plan to soon. The COVID-19 pandemic is a big reason why, but their flexibility means they’re also serving other purposes.
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