Track 1

Performance Challenge

Track 2

Accountability Challenge

Track 3

Human Capital Challenge

Track 4

Technology Challenge

Track 5

Communication Challenge

Track 6

Governance Challenge

Concurrent Session 2:

Getting strategic results through performance-based acquisition:

As the performance challenge moves into other management systems—in this case, acquisition—and decision makers attempt to link the procurement process to agency and vendor performance, how are organizations responding?

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Managing internal and external risk in the information age:

In recent years, government organizations have been required to address a wide range of administrative and programmatic risks in the management of their mission responsibilities. How have new technologies complicated this job and at the same time given agencies more effective tools and techniques to assess and mitigate such risks?

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Measuring and compensating performance—linked or not?:

As government at all levels has begun measuring agency results, and decision makers are attempting to tie resource decisions—including compensation for individual employee performance—to organization outcomes, how are public management leaders responding?

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Managing knowledge across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries:

Many issues facing the American public today cannot be tackled without a national strategy. Issues such as homeland security transcend boundaries of federal, state, and local governments and require collaboration among many sectors and a complex, multidisciplinary approach. What is being done to share knowledge institutionally across organization boundaries?

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Engaging citizens and formulating policy in a federal democracy:

Government organizations at all levels have reached out to give interested parties an opportunity to advise and comment on proposed rule making and other policy decisions. Given the volume, pace, and complexity of policy formulation activities, how are government agencies engaging citizens—particularly in the context of new communication technologies?

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Finding common purpose in international collaborations:

Avoiding delays, half-measures, and counter-productive conflicts are challenges common to efforts that cross international boundaries. In this regard, how have government and public nonprofit organizations worked together successfully and with alacrity to achieve a common purpose in cross-cultural environments?

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