Reinventing Government

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Reinventing Government

• Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Susan Brady
• Julie Johnson

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Results-Oriented Government

• Funding outcomes, not inputs
• Traditional bureaucratic governments
• Entrepreneurial governments seek to change
  rewards and incentives
• Department of Public Aid
• Developed a set of performance measures (IL)

3
Result Oriented Examples

• The Federal Job Training Partnership Act
• Housing Authority of Louisville
• Illinoiss Cook County
• National Center for State Courts
• The way highway construction

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Sunnyvale, CA

• Performance Leader
• Rather than define the amount of money they want
  to spend, they define the results they want to
  achieve.
• Goals
• Community condition indicators
• Objectives
• Performance indicators

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Performance Measurement

• What gets measured, gets done
• If you dont measure results, you cant tell
  success from failure
• See success
• Are you rewarding failure?
• Learn from both success and failure
• Recognize failure
• Demonstrate results

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Putting Measures to Work!

• Do it right!
• Education and performance measures
• Paying for performance
• Managing for performance
• Budgeting for results