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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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A Celebration of National Women’s Month with State Budget Officers
This male-dominated 1953 photo of a National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) annual meeting would not have been a surprise...
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Attack on Auditor Independence in Iowa
Last night, the Iowa Senate quickly passed a bill that effectively limits the State Auditor’s independent oversight by restricting his...
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Measuring & Managing Business Tax Incentives
by Dr. Ellen Harpel, Founder of Smart Incentives and Randall Bauer, Director, PFM Group Consulting Randall Bauer Ellen Harpel As...
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Harry P. Hatry, Leader and Performance Management Pioneer, dies at 92
On Tuesday evening, we got a phone call to tell us that Harry P. Hatry, the renowned, respected and remarkable leader in the world of...
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Building Human Services Relationships
Public sector human services professionals tend to go into their field to spend time with lower-income families who are in need of...
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Nine New Governors and a Generational Shift
Out of the 36 gubernatorial elections last November, 26 resulted in the return of an incumbent while only one, Nevada’s Steve Sisolak,...
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The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Mini-RCTs
“Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been called the gold standard for identifying the impacts of public service-delivery...
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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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Keeping Focus on the Humans at the Heart of Human Services
After 23 years in government John Eller, the director of Social Services in Mecklenburg County, will leave his government job in...
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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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Five Key Benefits of Enterprise Risk Management for Government
by Marty Benison, Industry Executive Director for State and Local Government, Oracle While the move to "Software as a Service (SaaS)...
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What Are CIOs Thinking in 2022
We were fascinated by some of the most significant changes signaled in the recently released annual CIO survey from the National...
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THE BLACK WEALTH DATA CENTER
A little over two years ago, as we were researching an IBM Center for the Business of Government report about lessons learned from the...
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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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Return Utah: Reducing the Stigma of Work Gaps
Pools of new talent for state and local governments are in short supply. One state, which has come up with a significant new effort is...
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WHY THE PHRASE "BEST PRACTICE" MAKES US JITTERY
We have to admit it. More than once we’ve referred to a policy or management approach as a “best practice.” But mostly those words were...
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DO YOU KNOW WHOSE ROAD YOU'RE ON?
Picture this: You’ve gotten off the interstate highway, and are trying to get to your destination of choice. Your car runs into a big...
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