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Making Performance Information More Useful

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Morris Bosin

Only 50 percent of federal managers use performance information to help them run more effective programs. This percentage has not changed in more than a decade, according to two Government and Accountability Office studies conducted in 1997 and 2008. Similar results wer... More »

High-Impact Decisions: Report Card Grades Regulators

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Jerry Ellig

The Mercatus center at george Mason university has a new report card to grade the executive branch on high-priced decisions. it encourages regulatory impact analysisa tool presidents have tried to get agencies to apply for decades. A few years ago at ... More »

Keys to Successful Performance Measurement

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Kaye Kendrick

For many years, leaders have waited for real-time, easy-to-use performance data. Thanks to technology, that time has come. Now, the question is, What do we do with it? Performance measurement initiatives have emerged in all organizational sectors and ... More »

Overcoming Challenges to Performance Measurement and Evaluation

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Joseph Wholey

Today public managers face demanding constituencies, interest groups, and advocacy groups with legitimate but conflicting interests, as well as aggressive media scrutiny. Global, national, and local forces demand higher levels o... More »

Meeting the Publics Demands: Renewing Performance Management

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Colin Waitt

In the federal government, performance management seems to be perceived as synonymous with compliance, punitive scrutiny, scorecards, public accountability, and budgetary reduction for poor performers. This is not always the cas... More »