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Accountability and Performance Update – Sept 15-21, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · 16d

Performance Summit, collaborative governance: curated articles, week of Sept 15-21, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/46wQo7f

The “Performance Counts” Summit Government Executive The best ideas in government performance don’t always start in Washington. They come from state capitols, city halls and county offices, places …

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · 20d

AI in Government: Overview

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats to @oecd-ocde.bsky.social on its new report on the uses of #AI in government - more than 200 use cases! oecd.ai/en/gov

Governments are one of the most important adopters of artificial intelligence (AI) and yet, they are also one of the most cautious. This tension isn’t merely organisational inertia—it reflects governm...

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Accountability and Performance Update – Sept 8-14, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · 23d

Birthday, systems, training materials: curated articles, Sept 8-14, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4nwVCGW

Happy Birthday to a Performance Pioneer Barrett & Greene Terrell Blodgett, who turns 102 today (Sept 15), is one of the pioneers of the modern-day adoption and use of performance management at …

Accountability and Performance Update – Sept 1-7, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Sep 8

AI, Evaluation, & Accountability - curated articles, Sept 1-7, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4m4xhak

Using AI to Make the Most of Evidence Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development To make a more effective use of evaluation reports, Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs developed&nb…

Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 25-31, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Sep 1

Framework, dashboard, index: curated articles, Aug 25-31, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/3USwNZV

Happy Labor Day! Enjoy the beginning of Fall. Updated Federal Performance Framework U.S. Office of Management and Budget The federal performance framework is in “Part 6” of OMB’s annually updated b…

Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 18-24, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Aug 25

Impact-driven, measurable, StatGPT: curated articles, Aug 18-24, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4fXjNMb

Making Performance Measurable Government Executive (Op-Ed: Willie Patterson) The concept of trust but verify in leadership has two essential elements. Trust means showing confidence in your te…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Improves our Nation Through Better Design

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Aug 22

NEW: Trump Exec Order creates a "National Design Studio" headed by a "Chief Design Officer." Does this replace the old US Digital Service, the federal Customer Experience team, & 18F? bit.ly/464BMwE

IMPROVING GOVERNMENT SERVICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to launch the “America by Design” initiative, establishing the

Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 11-17, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Aug 18

Decisionmaking & Dataphobia - curated articles, Aug 11-17, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/45Dun63

Value of Evidence-Based Decisionmaking PATimes Even in agencies that vocally support evidence-based decision-making and use one of the decision-making modalities described in the article, there exi…

Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 4 – 10 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Aug 11

Navigating, implementing, linking: curated articles, Aug 4-10, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/4oCmeI6

Navigating Nonprofit Scandals: Audit’s Role in Accountability. Center for Accountability & Performance (Free Webinar, Tuesday, Aug 12, 1 p.m. Eastern) This webinar will focus on the crit…

Accountability and Performance Update – July 28 – Aug 3, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Aug 4

Optimizing, aligning, lynchpins: curated articles, July 28 - Aug 3, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/4lUidg8

Optimizing Performance Using Values-Based Management National Academy of Public Administration This white paper outlines a strategic, four-step framework to help agencies sustain and improve perfor…

Accountability and Performance Update – July 21-27, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jul 28

Tips, validating, tracking, building: curated articles, July 221-27, 2025 - @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/4lJoN9f

Ten Tips for Better Performance Management Barrett & Greene During the last three (plus) decades, Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene have seen a number of flaws crop up in the performance man…

Accountability and Performance Update – July 14-20, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks to @donkettl.bsky.social, Elaine Lu, @ijpa2022.bsky.social, and @tandfresearch.bsky.social for memorializing the first 30 years of the Government Performance and Results Act in a nicely bound book!

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John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jul 21

N. Carolina's Benchmarking Status Report 2025: curated item, week of July 14-20, 2025 - @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance: aspacap.com/2025/07/21/a...

Benchmarking Project Report 2025 School of Government, University of N. Carolina The North Carolina Benchmarking Project was established in 1995 so that participating municipalities could comp…

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Accountability and Performance Update – July 7-13, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jul 14

Purposeful planning; Peak performance: curated articles, July 7-13, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/3GxHzRH

Toward Purposeful Strategic Planning Science Direct (Bert George) Research on strategic planning crosses disciplines ranging from management and public administration to healthcare, urban plan…

Accountability and Performance Update – June 30 – July 6, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jul 7

Manage, assess, scorecard: curated articles, June 30 - July 6, 2025 - @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - aspacap.com/2025/07/07/a...

“No Better Way to Manage Performance” Government Executive (Op-Ed – Howard Risher) The U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s new performance management guidance looks to refine how federa…

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Melania Trump modeled in US prior to getting work visa

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jul 1

Lisa Murkowski: No John McCain

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John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jul 1

Would the criteria described in the new DOJ memo prioritizing denaturalization of citizens (bit.ly/44HNtZE) allow a future Administration to fast track removal of Melania Trump per 2016 AP report (bit.ly/44r8bLT) she may have “willfully misrepresented or concealed facts relevant to naturalization.”

Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that she worked in the seven weeks before her attorney says she had legal permission to work in the country, according to...

House Appropriators Kneecap GAO, Along with Themselves and the Rest of Congress

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jun 30

House Approps Cmte approves FY2026 Legis Branch approps bill to cut @USGAO staff by 63% (~2,200)! Talk abt cutting off your nose to spite your face! Nice piece by x-GAOer Henry Wray - bit.ly/45OGJu4 - Comte website says GAO cut “safeguards American taxpayer dollars.” Yeah, right.

The House Appropriations Committee recently reported a bill that cuts the budget of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) by almost 50 percent. The bill also limits GAO’s ability to bring laws…

Accountability and Performance Update – June 23-29, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jun 30

Auditing, improving, targeting: curated articles, June 23-29, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/4no5qUx

Federal Auditing Does Not Work U.S. Office of Management and Budget OMB released new audit guidance to agencies (M-25-30) that decries existing procedures as “rote exercises that do no ensure sound…

Accountability and Performance Update – June 16-22, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jun 24

Martha Dorris probably has a better history of the movement! But hiding the data isn't a good sign.

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jun 23

Standardized, satisfaction, improvement: curated articles, June 16-22, 2025 - @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance - bit.ly/45xhYCx

Standardized Performance Measures: What’s Left Out? Barrett & Greene It’s important that standardized performance measurements are used to ensure that data is compiled consistently across multi…

Accountability and Performance Update – June 9-15, 2025

John M. Kamensky @john-m-kamensky.bsky.social · Jun 16

Power, performance, satisfaction: curated articles, June 9-15, 2025 @aspanational.bsky.social Center for Accountability & Performance- bit.ly/3HCrri3

The Power of Performance Audits (Webinar, Tues. June 17, 1 p.m. Eastern – Free) Center for Accountability and Performance This webinar features veteran city, county and state performance audit…