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John Kamensky

Associate Partner, IBM Global Business Services; Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government. Former Deputy Director, National Partnership for Reinventing Government; Assistant Director, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Staff, Texas Constitutional Convention; Staff, Texas House of Representatives.

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Veterans Benefits Administration: Review of the Disability Claims and Appeals Processes

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Implementation of the Evidence Act: A Discussion at the NAPA EOM Panel

Background: In one of its last actions before adjourning last month, the 115th Congress passed the “Foundations of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.” This

Employee Engagement Surveys Are Only Part of the Answer

Merely measuring employee engagement isn’t enough, concludes a NAPA white paper on Strengthening Organizational Health and Performance in Government. While both the federal

Next Steps in Improving Government Performance

This blog post first appeared in Government Executive Have government reformers been putting the chicken before the egg? For years, their attention has been on

The Use of Organizational Assessment Reviews to Improve Organizational Performance

Summary from October 20,2017 EOM Panel Meeting Background The Office of Management and Budget has invited NAPA to share its insights on how to leverage the

The Use of People Analytics to Improve Organizational Health and Performance

Summary from September 15, 2017 EOM Panel Meeting Background The Office of Management and Budget has asked NAPA for insights on how to leverage the growing body

The Importance of Evaluating Program Outcomes: The Case of Federal Credit Programs

Summary from June 23, 2017 EOM Panel Meeting: Background Federal loan and loan guarantee programs have grown to immense proportions, amounting to $ 3.6 trillion in FY2016. That

Implementing the DATA Act: Working Across Boundaries

The Executive branch was given three years to implement its key provisions. A key deadline was to post all federal spending data on a single

President Trump’s Government Reform Initiatives

Summary of April 26, 2017 EOM Panel Meeting Introduction Media reports on the various reform announcements focused on potential staffing and budget reductions, but OMB

Implementing the Program Management Improvement Accountability Act

Summary from March 17, 2017 EOM Panel Meeting Context Legislation passed in December 2016 requires federal agencies to develop greater project and program management capacity. A NAPA

Reflections on Federal Foresight Initiatives in the 1970s

Summary During the 1970s the planning and foresight community worked very hard to incorporate the long view – foresight perspective and practices – into governmental

Governing with Foresight: Bringing Strategic Foresight to Bear in Policy Planning and Management

Introduction How can a new President assess the risks, challenges, and opportunities of his or her agenda – and more importantly, what actions can be

Effective Strategic Foresight is Rooted in Cross-Agency Collaboration

Cross-agency collaboration is essential for effective strategic foresight. How can existing efforts be improved to achieve this goal? Events of recent years and certainly

Linking Foresight to Decision Making

How can strategic foresight be effectively linked to decision making in the federal executive branch? Strategic foresight can inform national policy in the face of

What Is Strategic Foresight?

Introduction Does it make any sense for the government to think long term? We’ve done it before – think about the interstate

Bringing Strategic Foresight to the Fore

Introduction What is NAPA’s Strategic Foresight Panel planning to do? This isn’t the first time NAPA has addressed the topic

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