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Commentary: Mobile Tech Could Sharply Boost Feds’ Productivity
February 22, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Over the past 25 years, private sector productivity in America has risen by more than 50 percent according the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Government, unfortunately, cannot make the same claim. While the BLS stopped tracking general public sector productivity in 1995, comparing private sector productivity to even the most commercially-oriented ...
The Silent Leader
April 1, 2010 The legacy of Dwight Ink shows the force behind making policy work. It was Good Friday 1964, and Dwight Ink was sitting on his couch at home watching televised images of a massive earthquake that had hit Alaska. "It looked like utter chaos," recalls Ink. "I remember feeling sorry for ...
The Silent Leader
January 13, 2010 It was Good Friday 1964, and Dwight Ink was sitting on his couch at home watching televised images of a massive earthquake that had hit Alaska. "It looked like utter chaos," recalls Ink. "I remember feeling sorry for whoever was going to have to put things back together." A few ...
Blueprint for Disaster
November 11, 2009 As Washington considers an overhaul of the nation's health care system affecting roughly one-seventh of our economy, a critical question arises: How effective are we at crafting legislation that can be implemented? To answer this question, we partnered with Government Executive in 2008 to survey members of the Senior Executive ...
Blueprint for Disaster
November 1, 2009 When Washington designs policies that can't work, the results are grim. As Washington considers an overhaul of the nation's health care system affecting roughly one-seventh of our economy, a critical question arises: How effective are we at crafting legislation that can be implemented? To answer this question, we partnered with ...
Networked Government
June 15, 2003 It's not about outsourcing vs. bureaucracy. It's about managing diverse webs of relationships to deliver value. or a century, the predominant organizational model used to deliver public services and fulfill public policy goals has been hierarchical government bureaucracy. A complex society is forcing this model to change. Although the traditional ...
Turning a Profit
March 1, 1997 Before New Zealand's weather forecasting agency was turned into a state-owned enterprise, it had overspent its budget by $2 million. The organization made a profit for the first time last year, and thanks to the profit-sharing plan, each employee took home $3,000. Before After Profits -$2 million $400,000 Number of ...
The Wonder Down Under
March 1, 1997 ith more than 12,000 employees, New Zealand's Ministry of Public Works used to be one of the country's largest departments. The 125-year-old ministry built most of the island nation's infrastructure-its airports, bridges, power stations, roads, canals, dams and railways. Functions ranging from maintaining military bases to land use planning were ...
