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Mixing Politics and Procurement Creates a Toxic Brew
If elected officials are allowed to influence government contracting decisions it won’t end well for the public.
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Thoughts on the President’s Management Agenda: Kudos… With a Caution
The PMA doesn’t provide adequate guidance on one of the most important levers available to the government to improve performance: acquisition.
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What the Country Needs: A Servant Leader
Civic engagement, through voluntarism and service of all kinds, can serve as a great unifying force.
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How a New Contracting Tool is Shaking Up Federal Procurement
Other transaction authority presents an formidable challenge to the Federal Acquisition Regulation. That’s a good thing.
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The Clock Is Ticking on Trump’s Management Agenda
Without the roadmap of a viable management agenda, it’s hard to see how proposed reorganization plans could be effective.
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Breaking the Stranglehold of Calcified Federal Acquisition Policies
It’s past time for government to get in on the benefits of the online marketplace.
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The Trump Administration’s Innovation Problem
Even Mark Zuckerberg probably wouldn’t qualify to be on many government technology contracts.
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Why Innovation Programs Should Target Middle-Aged Bureaucrats
Data show that the average age of the most successful innovators is somewhere in the mid-40s.
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Congress is Sending Mixed Messages on Defense Procurement
The landscape is littered with the remains of scores of previous reform efforts.
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Trump’s Separate Pursuit of Two Government Reform Plans Will Hurt Both
A more connected and aligned strategy is more likely to drive sustainable, effective results.
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The Path to Better Management of Government’s Huge Programs
A new law guides the way to delivering on large-scale change initiatives.
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Memo to OMB: Speed Kills
Setting aside the debate over what should be funded (or not), much could be achieved if the administration took a longer view.
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Agencies Could See Deeper, Faster Cuts Than Previously Contemplated
There are at least three possible budget scenarios in play.
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It's Time to Bury A-76—It Worked Once, But Its Day Is Past
An advocate of using competition to drive greater government efficiency explains why a decades-old outsourcing tool needs to die.
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This Is No Way to Run a Government
Addressing fiscal concerns doesn’t preclude improving the way agencies deliver on their missions.
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When Civic Degradation Tops Civic Engagement
The next president faces the difficult but essential task of restoring a sense of common purpose.
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We Talk Tech, But We Really Need to Talk People
Nowhere are the opportunities and barriers greater than when it comes to the workforce.
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The Bipartisan Forces that Could Stifle Government Innovation
Both Democrats and Republicans say they recognize the need for change, but their party platforms suggest otherwise.
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This Is No Way to Fix Defense Acquisition
The Senate’s plan, as spelled out in the defense authorization bill, could actually make things worse.
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