Responding to Response Times

Barrett & Greene

For emergency services, every moment can spell the difference between a minor incident and a crippling injury or a death. To the general public, fast response times are the most tangible evidence that they are getting good service. But most people who read about response times aren’t aware that they can be measured very differently by first responders.

Embedding Strategic Foresight into Strategic Planning

IBM Center for The Business of Government (Bert George)

Despite strategic foresight’s popularity, it is often detached from more ongoing strategic planning and management in government. This goes against the origins of strategic foresight, which was developed as an approach to making strategic planning and management more future-oriented. This report makes the claim that when strategic foresight and strategic planning and management are better integrated, the effectiveness of both approaches in government and for government enhances greatly. But how to provide such integration? Four cases of strategic foresight from across the globe are analyzed in this report.

Resource of the Week:  City Health Dashboard

NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Department of Population Health

This project’s goal is to provide communities and city leaders with an array of regularly updated data specific to neighborhood and/or city boundaries – such as life expectancy, park access, and children in poverty – to improve the health and well-being of everyone in the community. Launched in 2018, the Dashboard offers data on over 45 measures of health and drivers of health for over 1,200 cities across the U.S.