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The Partnership’s research team is dedicated to providing the quality information, insightful analysis,
and practical solutions needed to modernize the federal government so it can better protect and promote the security,
health and prosperity of all Americans. Through its unique series of high-visibility reports, insightful
issue briefs, original surveys, and innovative research projects (such as the annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings)
the Partnership is helping to shed light on the challenges facing the public sector and the changes we need to make to better attract,
retain and empower America’s most talented workers.
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The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to revitalize our federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works.
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Best Places to Launch a Career in the Federal Government Snapshot
The Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte set out to understand what it takes to build a federal government workforce of the future in an era of career flexibility and job fluidity. How do professionals starting their federal careers feel about the agencies they serve and how well are those agencies managing their new class of public servants? This Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® snapshot analysis is based on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 2010 employee survey.
Best Places to Work Snapshot: What Drives Innovation in Government
The Partnership and Hay Group found a strong disconnect between the desire of federal employees to innovate and the degree to which innovation is encouraged in their workplaces. Six workplace conditions have a high effect on innovation and federal leaders can improve innovation within their agencies by creating an environment in which each of these conditions thrives.
From Data to Decisions: The Power of Analytics
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.
Making Smart Cuts: Lessons from the 1990s Budget Front
The Partnership for Public Service, with Booz Allen Hamilton, interviewed more than 30 current and former senior federal officials and government experts, on how federal agencies responded to past budget cuts. Their insights and experiences, presented here, are useful for leaders now facing similar challenges, and can assist agencies and members of Congress develop and implement effective strategies as they navigate the difficult path ahead.
Preparing the People Pipeline: A Federal Succession Planning Primer
The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton set out to explore how extensively agencies are planning, with a particular examination of an at- risk occupational area that ironically has responsibility for succession planning for the whole government: the federal HR workforce. We also set out to better understand the barriers to effective succession planning and to outline simple steps that will help federal managers get started today.
Securing the Future: Management Lessons of 9/11
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush supported and Congress approved two of the most significant government reorganizations in decades—the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
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