"Disaggregate to Manage"
Our late friend and colleague Harry Hatry long insisted that data is far more valuable when it’s disaggregated. In a January 2022 paper...
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B&G REPORT.
The B&G Report features newsy items relating to a wide variety of state and local government management topics, including state and local performance audit, state and local performance management, government budgeting, state and local human resource issues, and a variety of other public sector issues.
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Let’s Talk Performance!
A couple of weeks ago, we were invited by the National Center for Public Performance to be the inaugural panelists in its series of...
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THE B&G Reading List
Periodically, we make a request in the B&G Report for recommendations of books that provide worthy reading for people who are interested...
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Please Recommend a Book
We’ve recently been reading an advance copy of a book by Bill Leighty, former chief of staff under Governors Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of...
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Fighting Fraud: Advice for Smaller Cities
Whatever their size, all state and local governments must contend with the possibility that federal grant money or taxpayer revenues will...
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The Non-Tech Problems with Public Sector Apps
With the advent of mobile apps and easily accessible web portals, there’s growing potential for improved communication between...
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The Fight for Independent Oversight
In 2018, a regional ballot measure in nine counties in the San Francisco area dedicated $500 million of $4.5 billion in increased...
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Lagging Inspections: Will We Never Learn?
We are, as readers of the B&G Report know, regular users of performance audits. In so doing, we're sometimes reminded about the Greek...
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Getting Feedback From Residents: A New Survey
Increasingly, the old days of town hall meetings is giving way to electronic means for getting input from residents. Though this means of...
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New, Up-to-date GUIDE TO BUDGET RESOURCES
Several years ago, we worked with the Volcker Alliance to created a guide to resources about state budgeting intended for use by public...
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Why hide from data?
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been doing research into the challenges municipalities face when they want to hire a diverse workforce....
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Bringing Context to Quality of Life Ratings
Yesterday afternoon, at the #ICMA’s annual conference in Columbus Ohio, an announcement was made about an exciting collaboration to...
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Measuring Principals (not Principles)
Over the years in which we’ve been covering the evolution of performance management, it’s always been abundantly clear to us that great...
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Praise in a Remote World
We’ve repeatedly heard the phrase: “People don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses.” This comment has been supported by loads of...
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Climate Action: Backed by Budget
by Chris Fabian, CEO, ResourceX To prevent a “climate catastrophe,” the focus of local, regional, national, and international...
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Understanding Fiscal Scandals and Their Impact on Localities
There’s no shortage of news reports about fiscal scandals, and while we doubt the number of convicted politicians and employees has...
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The Tower of State and Local Babel
Some years ago, when the phrase “big data,” was first gaining currency, we decided that before we embarked on any projects related to...
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Disaggregating is King
Our friend and colleague Harry Hatry has long insisted that data is far more valuable when it’s disaggregated. In a January 2022 paper...
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Procurement Offices and the Environment
It would be a wonderful thing, we think, if the federal government could move forward on environmental issues. But as recently as a few...
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Crowdfunding to Help Pay for Infrastructure
by John R. Bartle, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Can Chen, Georgia State University John Bartle ...
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