Federal President’s Management Agenda: Quarterly Update

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

OMB released a progress update on its three “cross-agency priority goals” as of the third quarter of fiscal year 2023. It highlights progress on Priority 2, which focuses on improving customer experiences for targeted federal services. It also provides new metrics for Priority 3, on a dashboard for government business operations, such as internal HR and IT services (scroll down to find it).

Agency Priority Goals 101: Webinar (Sept 13, 1 p.m. Eastern)

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

This Lunch & Learn is targeted to federal employees to help them understand what Agency Priority Goals are, and how they can contribute to their progress.

Getting Managers to Measure Performance

Stacey Barr’s Blog

Managers really must see the benefit of better performance measurement if they’re ever going to give their time and energy to support it. Here are three tips to help them see measurement as useful.

Beyond Reporting: What Drives the Use of Performance Data to Improve Sustainability in Cities

Public Management Review

This research article by Angela Park uses survey data of U.S. cities regarding how they collect and use performance data when managing sustainability programs. It identifies institutional conditions that contribute to a greater use of performance information.

Public Budgeting from the Perspective of Critical Race Theory

Public Administration

 This article uses the tenets of critical race theory to illustrate how to use the budget process to incorporate equity. The resulting racial equity budgeting (REB) framework has three tenets: acknowledging and correcting historic biases, increasing the voice of nondominant groups, and disrupting the status quo by ensuring equity in current policies.

Resource of the Week:  Benchmarking Data Governance Frameworks

Data & Policy

This article explores the increasing importance of global data governance due to the rapid growth of data, and the need for responsible data practices. The purpose of this paper is to compare approaches and identify patterns in the emergent data governance ecosystem.