Unintended Consequences of Performance Contracting

LinkedIn (Peter Ndaa)

When accountability systems are mistaken for performance systems, organisations learn how to comply, not how to improve.

Paradox of Public Performance Management

Medium (Joy Bonaguro)

“I don’t support the prevailing conventional wisdom that government wide (or even elector led) performance management programs are desirable. Instead, I want to make the case that it should be adopted in certain contexts meeting certain criteria.”

Resource of the Week:  State Chief Data Officer Tracker

Beeck Center for Social Impact, Georgetown University

 This is a first-of-its-kind resource that tracks the evolving role of CDOs in state governments and their efforts to advance data-informed decision-making and collaboration across agencies.