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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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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (Part 3)

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (Part 3)

As we approach the last several weeks of December, our plan is to take a full vacation starting on December 14, continuing through New...

PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance” by John Kamensky, a...

ARE BEST PRACTICES REALLY THE BEST?

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ARE BEST PRACTICES REALLY THE BEST?

Just the other day, we were editing a Guest Column for this website (we won’t bother to mention the name of the author) and discovered...

REINVENTING THE WHEEL – PUBLIC SECTOR STYLE

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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...

TOO MUCH DATA – TOO LITTLE TIME

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TOO MUCH DATA – TOO LITTLE TIME

Typically, when we hear about a city or state choosing not to gather more potentially useful data because it’s too time consuming, we...

WHEN IT COMES TO DATA, CONTEXT IS KING

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WHEN IT COMES TO DATA, CONTEXT IS KING

Back in 2020, then President Donald Trump proclaimed that “The murder rate in Baltimore and Detroit is higher than El Salvador, Guatemala...

Negative Audits Can Be Good News

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Negative Audits Can Be Good News

Several years ago – right before the start of the pandemic -- our book, The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management was...

Measuring & Managing Business Tax Incentives

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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...

Harry P. Hatry, Leader and Performance Management Pioneer, dies at 92

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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...

The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Mini-RCTs

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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...

Let’s Talk Performance!

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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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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)...

Measuring Principals (not Principles)

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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...

Disaggregating is King

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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...

Does Measurement Get Things Done? Really?

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Does Measurement Get Things Done? Really?

Two of the most-repeated aphorisms pertaining to performance management have long been “What Gets Measured Gets Managed,” or, optionally,...

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