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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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GOVERNMENT IS MORE THAN RED VS BLUE
We’re looking forward to participating in a panel at the upcoming annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration...
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REALITY TV AND REALITY IN GOVERNMENT
In 2024, our professional life was very busy (as our colleagues, family and friends know), and so we hardly had the energy in our...
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BURIED ACADEMIC TREASURES
When we were attending the most recent Southeastern Conference for Public Administration in Memphis (SECOPA), we sat in on a number of...
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WHAT DO – OR DON’T – THE FEDS DO?
Over the course of time, we’ve written repeatedly about the confusion many Americans have about which level of government provides which...
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GENERATION Z: ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
In conversations that we’ve had lately with people in human resources and elsewhere in government, we’ve found ourselves repeatedly...
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OUR RESPONSE TO RESPONSE TIMES
When it comes to many vital public services, including police, fire and EMS, one of the primary – and sometimes the only – performance...
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REINVENTING THE WHEEL – PUBLIC SECTOR STYLE
Recently, a relatively high-level manager in a large southern city told us about the progress her city was making in energizing a...
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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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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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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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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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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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How To Use Data in Workforce Management
Across the U.S., a growing number of cities, counties, and states are using data across agencies to improve management and make...
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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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