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Performance-Built Budgets Barrett & Greene This article summarizes a webinar focusing on the use of performance measures in the budgeting process.  It highlights the successes of the highly transparent results-oriented funding approach that is transforming the Ohio budgeting process, with examples of … Continue reading →

Understanding Performance Management from the Bottom-Up Public Administration Review (Leif Kongsgaard; Open Access PDF) This article provides a cutting-edge perspective of how frontline employees and managers respond to a robust performance management system in terms of their reactions to “numbers” from … Continue reading →

WEBINAR: Can Budgeting be Based on Performance? (Tues., Apr 28, 1 p.m. Eastern) Center for Accountability & Performance (free) New AI-driven tools may make it easier for governments to track performance in real-time, lowering the administrative burden of linking budgets to performance. Panelists … Continue reading →

When Data Challenges You to Change Barrett & Greene (Michael Jacobson) Over a decade, King County, WA (Seattle) decided to gather data from community members about their priorities and our employees about their engagement. What we found changed our approach to … Continue reading →

The McNamara Fallacy of Metrics Substack (Jono Hey) The McNamara Fallacy is a belief in easy-to-measure quantitative metrics at the expense of ignoring hard-to-measure qualitative factors. FY24 Federal Program Inventory Created Using AI We The Doers (April Harding) OMB has … Continue reading →