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Offering Institutional Insight to Government's Leaders

The winning candidates from the 2012 elections will face a daunting set of challenges. As difficult as modern campaigns have become, the governance challenges may very well prove to be more vexing. Public service professionals, acting through the National Academy of Pub... More »

Strong Executive Branch Leadership Crucial for Policy Implementation

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A president is elected every four years, but he or she does not run the government alone. Thousands of political appointments must be made to establish the White House's leadership of the executive branch. More »

Agencies Fail to Take Advantage of Strategic Sourcing

Ryann K. Ellis

“Improved and Expanded Use Could Save Billions in Annual Procurement Costs,” a report released in September 2012 by the Government Accountability Office(GAO), finds that that selected agencies leveraged only a fraction of their buying power through strategic... More »

Book Brief The Municipal Budget Crunch

Ryann K. Ellis

Many public officials have great ideas, but tend to work in a vacuum, so they don’t know what other cities are doing. The Municipal Budget Crunch, a new release compiled by Roger L. Kemp, Ph.D., offers an inside look at programs working municipalities across the n... More »

Shared Services and the Cloud: Seize the Opportunity

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The federal government has been gradually adopting shared service business models for administrative services for nearly 30 years. Today, the buzz is all about the cloud and its potential to transform shared services as we know ... More »