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 3:

Comparing performance with common standards:

How have governments begun to use benchmarking, leading indicators, and other learning methods to broadly evaluate and improve performance in a comparative context?

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Outcome-oriented cost management, cost sharing, and performance budgeting:

Given the increased emphasis on performance measurement and the attempt to tie budget and other resource decisions to agency performance, how have organizations raised the bar on managing costs and employing more results-oriented budgeting techniques?

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Developing professional leaders and managers:

Given the diverse, complex, and pressing nature of the transformative challenges facing today’s government organizations, what are agencies doing to prepare their current and future leaders and managers to drive this change over the next several decades?

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Managing virtually in a technology-smart organization:

Virtual office technology has come of age, and the private sector has surged ahead in its application. Typically, progress is driven by such bottom-line considerations such as reduced capital budget. How are government agencies taking advantage of technologies to meet bottom-line concerns, cyber-security issues, and other emerging public-sector challenges?

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Leading and managing change in a global setting:

So many of the world’s public-sector challenges—such as climate change—have taken on regional and even global dimensions. What is the public sector doing to prepare practitioners for leadership and managerial roles that will increasingly involve global perspective and communication?

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Interorganizational collaboration in the face of catastrophic disasters:

In the past few decades, federal, state, and local governments have been confronted with many catastrophic disasters—some caused by the force of nature and others by people. Is government doing enough to prepare for and respond to such events? How are lessons and new techniques learned in one setting shared with other institutional settings?

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