Strengthening Government’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Addressing “Future Shocks”

Government leaders increasingly find that “unexpected events” are now neither rare nor unexpected. Indeed, they are shocks—more frequent and more destabilizing, and involving cybersecurity, climate, supply chain, human capital, and other domains.

Building Trusted Digital Services: Lessons from Australia

Governments around the world are advancing in the transformation of operations and services for the digital age. The goal of “trusted digital services” enables transformation in a way that earns public trust. Developing and implementing trusted digital services matters supports near-term service delivery, and long-term legitimacy and sustainability of government with the public. Advanced digital governments cite trust as a key success factor, and as well as how digital technologies supportive innovative governance that services the public.

How Can Government Promote Greater Homeownership Across Communities of Color?

Blog Contributor: Emily Cheston, Digital Business Strategy, IBM Consulting

Eight Strategies for Transforming Government

Our collaboration with recognized scholars and thought leaders is intended to spark the imagination—crafting new ways to think about government by identifying trends, new ideas, and best practices in public management and innovation.

Based on our recent research and perspectives shared by current and former government, academic, and nonprofit leaders, this special report identifies eight strategies for transforming government in the years to come. These strategies draw on significant insights from a research roundtable in 2020.

The Agile-Policymaking Frontier (Part II)

In my previous post, I discussed “agile policymaking” as a vehicle for better government and how agile would be more objective and evidenced-based when it comes to traditional policy analysis (“TPA”).

The Agile-Policymaking Frontier

Just the sound of “making government more agile” summons pleasing images to the civic mind: resilient response to changing conditions; innovation and ingenuity; immediacy in problem-solving; citizen-centered service; bureaucracy getting out of the way; experimentation leading to progress.

Addressing the New Era of Deterrence and Warfare: Visualizing the Information Domain

Blog Co-Authors:  Kim Kagan, founder and president of the Institute for the Study of War; Fred Kagan, senior fellow and director of the Critical Threats Project at American Enterprise Institute; 

Bringing the People Served by Government Into the Design and Delivery of Those Services

With guest blogger, Brian W. Murphy, Partner, IBM iX-Customer Transformation, Federal Service Line Leader

A Unique Opportunity for Government Innovation: How Leaders Can Leverage Stimulus Funding

Our Center and many others have written numerous reports about government innovation, including how new innovation roles have focused on technology, data, and digital goals.  Innovation and data teams have been in place in cities for a decade, and more recently in state and federal government.

Providing a secure cloud for agency applications

Blog Co-Authors:  Mark Lerner Senior Manager, Technology & Innovation, Partnership for Public Service;  Emma Shirato Almon Associate Manager, Partnership for Public Service; Scott Robertson, Senior Partner and Vice President, Hybrid Cloud Strategy and Services, IBM; and Ryan Vuono, former intern, Research, Evaluation and Modernizing Government, Partnership for Public Service

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