President’s Management Agenda Priority Goals Update

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

OMB released its quarterly progress update on the three cross-agency priority goals that comprise the President’s Management Agenda. This update covers the period Oct 1 – Jan 31, the first quarter of fiscal year 2024.

Staying Alive? Data Analytics Center

FederalNewsNetwork

The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) oversees $5 Trillion in pandemic aid spending but is scheduled to sunset in September 2025. A bipartisan Senate bill would help the government retain the PRAC’s data analytics platform so it would still be available to inspectors general across the government. P.S. – Congress let the 2009 center overseeing Recovery Act spending to expire. Will lessons be learned?

Can a Risk Management Lens Improve Decision Making and Performance?

FederalNewsNetwork

Agencies have been required by OMB for the past eight years to use enterprise risk management approaches in their planning and budgeting. a new survey highlights why certain agencies are more successful than others.

A Hierarchy of Administrative Reforms

IBM Center for The Business of Government (Praja Trivedi)

Today, the generation of new ideas on “how” to undertake administrative reforms has outstripped the questions: “why” to reform and “when” to reform “what”?

Mousetraps for Flawed Data

Barrett & Greene

”For years now we’ve been writing about the endless reams of bad data that are used to manage and to make policy. . . . But, as time has passed, we’ve come across a great many signals, easily spotted and identified, that point to quicker recognition that information should be scrutinized.” The article has a half dozen examples.

Can Measuring and Managing Risk Improve Resilience?

RouteFifty

The Baltimore bridge catastrophe is an opportunity for local leaders to reevaluate their community’s risk profile and grapple with a concept that is complex but vital for local resilience: the “total cost of risk.”

Resource of the Week: Let’s Talk Performance

National Center for Public Performance

The NCPP hosts (and posts) a series of Spotify podcasts on improving performance – ranging from using AI to performance budgeting, to making data-driven decisions.