From Data to Decisions Report Released

The Partnership for Public Service, in collaboration with IBM's Public Sector Business Analytics & Optimization practice, set out to study federal agencies' use of analytics and how it helped them achieve better program results. We focused on identifying leading practices that illustrate how data informs decisions and drives meaningful and positive program changes. In particular, we were interested to know how employing good data led to changes in how agencies think about their programs and how it led to programmatic insights that influenced their decisions.

Whether agencies have fully immersed themselves in analyzing data, or have just begun the process, some basics have become apparent. If agencies want to improve program effectiveness and efficiency, they need to manage performance, and to do so, they have to measure it.

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Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® 2011 Rankings Released

An important tool for Congress, the Obama administration and agency leaders, the Best Places to Work rankings measure federal employee job satisfaction and commitment, gauge federal agency progress and identify signs of trouble.

Based on responses from more than 276,000 federal workers, the rankings include 308 federal agencies and subcomponents—representing 97 percent of the 2.1 million person federal workforce.

“When agencies are poorly managed and workers aren’t committed, the public suffers,” said Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service. “The rankings hold agency leaders accountable for the health of their organizations and provide a roadmap for leaders to make workplace improvements and better serve the American people.”

The Best Places to Work rankings are made possible with the generous support of Deloitte Consulting LLP and Hay Group.

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Making Smart Cuts Report Released

As the nation confronts historic deficits and major economic decline, government leaders will have to make a series of difficult choices: deciding what is important, what is expendable, which programs make effective use of taxpayer dollars—and which do not—and how best to achieve savings based on sound public policy.

To help guide policy makers and agency leaders as they confront the current economic crisis, the Partnership for Public Service with Booz Allen Hamilton released Making Smart Cuts: Lessons from the 1990s Budget Front, a report that provides recommendations for Congress, the administration and agency leaders as they begin making difficult budget decisions about what to cut and how best to achieve savings based on sound public policy. The report examines some of the lessons learned from government downsizing during the 1990s—the successes and the failures. It is our hope that the report serves as a resource for policy makers and agency leaders as they make difficult fiscal decisions that can impact our government, and all of us, for years to come.

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