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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 »

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 »