The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat articles from June 1999

The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat archives from June 1999

Acquisition reform: we've got to pull together to keep on target.(resignation of G. Edward DeSeve as acting deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget)
June 22, 1999... A recent key federal personnel change brings both significant concerns and significant opportunities. G. Edward DeSeve, acting deputy director for management at the US Office of Management and Budget, left government service at the end of...

From Hoover to GPRA: who's in charge?(Hoover Commission; Government Performance and Results Act)
June 22, 1999... Congressional pressure for better strategic plans and improved management practices dominates agency activities. Introduction to Series Several months ago, The New Yorker magazine contained a cartoon depicting a large conference table...

A new day for asset management: a former congressman suggests that, with the proper tools from Congress, the General Services Administration can better manage its real property assets.
June 22, 1999... A former congressman suggests that, with the proper tools from Congress, the General Services Administration can better manage its real property assets. Congress does not think that the General Services Administration (GSA) is doing a very...

Reflections on the DC control board: reflections and recommendations to the president from the member of Congress for the District of Columbia.
June 22, 1999... Reflections and recommendations to the president from the member of Congress for the District of Columbia. In 1995, President Clinton appointed five Washingtonians to a control board to help the nation's capital recover from insolvency....

Reinvention activities: global status report.(reinvention of governments)
June 22, 1999... An international forum recently examined reinvention efforts worldwide. Reinvention is regarded as a long-term continuous responsibility of governments. Ministers of 38 nations and Vice President Al Gore met to discuss the reinvention of...

A perennial with a new slant: political-career relations: a long-time FEIAA member describes the welcome change in the relationship between political and career executives.(Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association)
June 22, 1999... A long-time FEIAA member describes the welcome change in the relationship between political and career executives. On the second morning of the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association's (FEIAA) Executive Forum program last March, I...

Helping agencies focus on GPRA performance link.(HRM Developing Issues)(Government Performance and Results Act)
June 22, 1999... The Center for Human Resources Management (CHRM) of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) spent much of 1998 researching and analyzing practical approaches for achieving performance improvement in support of the Government...

OPM's learning symposium: building workforce performance.(HRM Developing Issues)(Office of Personnel Management)
June 22, 1999... The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is reshaping federal human resource development as evidenced at its December 1998 learning symposium in Hunt Valley, MD. The symposium, which was primarily designed for federal human resource...

Immigration and Naturalization tackles investment management: sound advice for managers implementing an information technology (IT) capital planning and investment management process.
June 22, 1999... Sound advice for managers implementing an information technology (IT) capital planning and investment management process. There is an old adage that says the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. In implementing an information...

Stakeholders: what do "they" know? Opening a dialogue: the Patent and Trademark Office holds is first-ever one-on-one dialogue on end-outcome performance goals with major customers and stakeholders.
June 22, 1999... The Patent and Trademark Office holds its first-ever one-on-one dialogue on end-outcome performance goals with major customers and stakeholders. What do they know? There is a good chance "they" know plenty. Who are "they?" They are...

Update: interview with John A. Koskinen.(Getting Ready for the Millennium)(part 3)(Interview)
June 22, 1999... In the third in a series, the chair of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion shares his views with the editor of The Public Manager. The Public Manager (hereafter TPM): Mr. Koskinen, would you please give our readers your...

Program risk evaluation.(Getting Ready for the Millennium)
June 22, 1999... Program risk evaluation, a methodology for rapid, detailed risk assessment for programs with significant IT involvement, can be very useful in Y2K activities. Less than six months remain before the inexorable deadline for Year 2000 (Y2K)...

Innovations in service delivery: cross servicing your personnel office: MSPB and APHIS entered into a successful HR partnership that benefits both agencies.(Merit Systems Protection Board; Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; human resources)
June 22, 1999... MSPB and APHIS entered into a successful HR partnership that benefits both agencies. On September 24, 1998, the employees and managers of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) entered a new era in the provision of human resources (HR)...

Using public-private partnerships to manage federal buildings and facilities.
June 22, 1999... Striking a balance between control, accountability, and innovation in managing the nation's federal assets; for some agencies, necessity has become the mother of innovation. The US government is one of the world's largest property owners,...

The US General Store: customers wanted a single source for help with any of their questions about the government. It sounds simple. to the customer the government was monolithic.
June 22, 1999... Customers wanted a single source for help with any of their questions about the government. It sounds simple. To the customer the government was monolithic. Series Editor's Note One of the themes of "Beyond the Beltway" is customer...

The future of public service: Annual NCAC/ASPA conference brought together individuals from all sectors to think about the problems facing government today and the solutions that are needed to make the public sector effective in the next century.(National Capital Area Chapter; American Society for Public Administration)
June 22, 1999... Annual NCAC/ASPA conference brought together individuals from all sectors to think about the problems facing government today and the solutions that are needed to make the public sector effective in the next century. All of us who work in...

Can the classroom survive the millennium?(Views You Can Use: New Ideas for Management)
June 22, 1999... New federal executive memorandum charts a course towards technology-based training? How much will training and development change in the next three years? Organizationally, training has now reached a crossroads. It's finally sunk in to...

Pragmatics for IT managers: email.(Views You Can Use: New Ideas for Management)(information technology)
June 22, 1999... Looking back five years or more to the way we used to do work, email has got to be the thing that we should marvel at most. Today, email is pervasive and in some case multimedia. Managers and professionals will routinely get 25 to 50 messages a...

Civil Service Reform 1999: "They shoot horses, don't they?".(Views You Can Use: New Ideas for Management)
June 22, 1999... It's now been 20 years since the passage of Civil Service Reform and the Clinton administration is trying one more time to add civil service reform to its roll call of reinvention accomplishments. This January, Vice President Gore announced the...

Computer-based training/distance learning.(Views You Can Use: New Ideas for Management)
June 22, 1999... Without question, learning and professional development is an integral part of a professional's and an organization's continued development. More than ever, personal and organizational success depends upon being able to update current skills,...

Virtual Learning.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Schank, Roger, McGraw-Hill: 1999 My co-worker proudly pointed to his shelf of 30 or 40 huge 3-ring binders, evidence of the dozens of training sessions he'd attended over 25 years of government service. When pressed, however, he couldn't...