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Neighborhood Watch in Belgium

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Dave Gelders

Belgian neighborhood watch projects were inspired by neighborhood watch projects in the United States and United Kingdom (see, for example, www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/neighborhoodwatch). Citizens, police, and the munic... More »

The New Administration's Shared Services Opportunity

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John Marshall

The shared services revolution began in the late 1980s with the adoption of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software packages by leading commercial enterprises. These highly standardized and sc... More »

In Pursuit of Ethical Governance

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Donald Menzel

Do you recognize these headlines? Former CIA Official Is Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Despite Red Flags About Judges a Kickback Scheme Flourished ... More »

Quattro Punti: Four Steps to Budgeting and Performance Management - Part 1

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Thad Juszczak

Government agencies often provide essential services that no one else provides. Therefore, the managers who run those agencies need a tool to manage for results, and citizen consumers of those services need one to gauge their ... More »

Preventing and Detecting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

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John Moore

The passage and implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and distribution of more than $700 billion in funds to federal, state, county, and city governments and agencies by the Obama Administration ha... More »