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General News Feb 20, 2018

FNR: How to improve organizational performance in your agency’s unit

The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) has released a paper offering a new data-driven management improvement approach that could transform federal agencies unit-by-unit. John Kamensky, chairman of NAPA’s …

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Standing Panel News Feb 15, 2018

Learning Agendas Can Produce Performance and Evaluation Evidence

The Evidence-based Policymaking Commission strongly recommends that agencies use learning agendas for evaluation plans to build the base of evidence that can be used to make program and government decisions. They result …

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General News Feb 13, 2018

A New Strategy to Improve Government Performance

A recent National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) report Improving Organizational Health and Performance in Government by a special panel of Academy fellows describes a vision of a federal government transformed …

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General News Feb 12, 2018

No Time to Wait Report mentioned in President's FY 19 Budget

Our #NoTimeToWait report was cited in the President's budget proposal today, and called a "clarion call to civil service reform." The budget specifically said, "'No Time to Wait,' a clarion call to civil service reform,…

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Standing Panel News Feb 8, 2018

The Big Deal About Big Data

This blog post first appeared in Government Executive Behind the roller-coaster politics rocking Washington, a much quieter but just as important revolution is underway. Government managers are advancing the use of “big…

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Standing Panel News Feb 6, 2018

Technology Forecast 2018 by NASCIO, PTI, and NAPA

Special Webinar: Technology Forecast 2018: What State and Local Government Technology Officials Can Expect Watch the Recording Here: https://amrms.adobeconnect.com/p7pbmapwgtp4/ This is popular annual event, NASCIO an…

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Standing Panel News Feb 5, 2018

A New Strategy to Improve Government Performance

A recent National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) report Improving Organizational Health and Performance in Government by a special panel of Academy fellows describes a vision of a federal government transformed …

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Standing Panel News Feb 2, 2018

Letter to the Speaker's Task Force

Summary The National Academy of Public Administration is honored to be among the organizations served on the Advisory Council to the Speaker's Task Force on Intergovernmental Affairs. The policy proposals and outcomes…

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Standing Panel News Feb 1, 2018

Social Equity and Emergency Management Responses

Background To assure equity in emergency response, it is important to focus on the intersection of natural hazard and the humancreated environment. Some groups have social vulnerabilities that put them in greater peril…

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Standing Panel News Feb 1, 2018

A Possible Future for the Federal Government

Embarking on any long journey, it helps to have a clear idea of where you expect, or at least hope, to end up. A special panel of National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) fellows frames its advice to the federal …

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Standing Panel News Jan 31, 2018

Next Steps in Improving Government Performance

This blog post first appeared in Government Executive Have government reformers been putting the chicken before the egg? For years, their attention has been on improving performance by focusing on program results. But a…

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Standing Panel News Jan 29, 2018

Mending Our Safety Net: Building Our Workforce

Introduction Labor force participation in our country has fallen to 63 percent. Millions of working-age Americans, particularly males between the ages of 25 and 54, are neither working nor seeking work. The laws, regula…

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