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The Performance Institute identifies,
studies and disseminates the leading management innovations
pioneered by “best-in-class” organizations. A
strictly non-partisan organization, the Performance Institute
serves as the nation’s leading repository of thoroughly
researched, documented, catalogued and peer-reviewed “best
practices” in a multitude of issue areas. Below are
the reports published and planned for the primary initiatives
of the President's Management Agenda.
Transitioning to Governance
Released January 11, 2001
While interest groups inundated President Bush and senior
officials with a broad range of policy recommendations, few
tackled the less-glamorous topic of effective federal management.
Unfortunately, many policy challenges are difficult to address
without responsive, management structures to institute change,
focus on performance, and coordinate competing interests.
With this in mind, Carl DeMaio (then with the Reason Public
Policy Institute) hosted a series of focus groups consisting
of past administration officials, congressional staff, interested
organizations, and other political veterans to discuss the
challenges the new administration will face and offer practical
advice to avoid past mistakes.
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Creating a Performance-Based
Electronic Government
Released October 30, 2002
In May 2002, a coalition of good government groups
launched a research project to identify the "best
practices" in defining and measuring e-government
initiatives. A research team surveyed CIOs and IT staff
from every federal agency to determine how they design,
plan, justify, manage, and measure the success of their
e-government initiatives. This report presents the findings
of that research—providing case studies from various
agencies and articulating a framework for the development
and use of IT performance measures.
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Designing a Performance-Based Competitive
Sourcing Process for the Federal Government
Released October 8, 2002
This report presents 37 of the most feasible and often-suggested
ideas generated during the research project. The 37
recommendations require some form of action by federal
agencies, the Administration and/or Congress, and provide
for substantial change to the existing competitive sourcing
process.
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Implementing and Measuring Innovative
Recruitment Strategies in Government
Released February 25, 2003
A comprehensive report cataloguing various recruitment
initiatives being managed by federal agencies and assessing
their relative success in attracting quality employees
to federal government service. The project will survey
all federal agencies to identify the most innovative
recruitment initiatives, examine common lessons learned,
review measures of performance, and evaluate overall
recruitment success.
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Citizens' Budget 2003-2005
Released April 30, 2003
Although 45 states face budget shortfalls for the coming
fiscal year, the State of California is faced with a
deficit in the ballpark of $30 billion — by far
the nation's largest. Working with Reason Foundation,
The Performance Institute applied the methodologies
and strategies it routinely uses with federal agencies
and programs to the State of California's proposed FY04
budget. What we found was that governments facing budget
deficits have more than two choices -- It is no longer
merely an issue of raising taxes or slashing budgets
across the board. Our research yielded the Citizens'
Budget -- a non-partisan, 150-page plan that details
a set of 10 reforms that, if implemented, would close
California's $30 billion gap and actually produce a
$6.5 billion surplus. The reforms recommended within
the Citizens' Budget can be applied to state and local
budgets nationwide.
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San Diego Citizens' Budget Plan
Released June 21, 2004
In November, 2003, The Performance Institute launched
the "San Diego Citizens' Budget Project"-
an initiative that would study the city's budget with
the objective of identifying cost savings and performance
improvement reforms during the FY 2005 budget cycle.
The San Diego Citizens’ Budget Project would provide
the "local" government model for the application
of performance, accountability, competition and transparency
reforms. In addition to providing ideas on how the City
could balance its budget in FY 2005 and beyond, the
project seeks to focus the city, stakeholders, media
and the general public on long-term reforms to the city's
budget and management processes.
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