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 1:

Demand for results drives new systems and behaviors:

Government at all levels—in both the executive and legislative branches—has begun requiring short- and long-term plans, including strategic goals, measurable objectives, a system for assessing outcomes, and reporting on results; decision makers are linking resource decisions to performance. How are organizations responding to this challenge?

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Stewardship, ethics, and new rules and realities:

As public-sector responsibilities, resources, and sourcing relationships have grown in size and complexity, the challenge of overseeing and accounting for execution of mission and behavior of the workforce has become more problematic. How are organizations responding to this challenge?

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New demographics and recruiting and retaining young professionals:

A large percentage of baby boomers will depart government employment in the next 3–5 years—including many from the senior-most ranks. It may be difficult to attract younger generations to choose and remain in public-service careers. How are organizations responding to this challenge?

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Keeping pace with expanding e-expectations:

In recent years, government agencies have improved and expanded electronic governance. Increasingly, the challenge will be not only to keep up with other organizations, but to keep pace with new technologies and rising expectations among users—citizens, the business community, and a younger, more Web-savvy public management workforce. How are organizations responding to this challenge?

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Making transparency an organization-wide value:

Achieving openness and candor in public bureaucracies—in and among different levels and branches of government and with the public and the media—has become increasingly problematic. Agencies and career civil servants are likely to adopt a risk-averse attitude and avoid sharing basic information with others who have a legitimate need for it. How are organizations responding to this challenge?

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Building trust in public-private collaborations:

Establishing trust early in the collaborative process is essential to avoid the sluggish, argumentative bureaucratic experience that typifies attempts to cross organization boundaries. In this regard, how have government organizations successfully collaborated? How are organizations responding to this challenge?

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