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After months of speculation, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue late last week released a four-part plan to restructure, consolidate, eliminate and privatize parts of her administration. Among the proposed changes, Gov. Perdue will be looking towards private vendors to consolidate the state’s IT services and manage its purchasing... [read more]
The latest announcement of cuts from the new government appeared on Kable on the 25 June 2010. The Minister, Francis Maude, is quoted as saying that he wants departments and agencies to slash the costs of their web sites “by up to 50%”. Since “up to 50%” could mean anything between 0% and 49%, it was a strange statement, but at... [read more]
US President, Barack Obama, will have to ask the US Congress for an additional $50 billion. At least he has to ask. Successive UK governments have spent vastly more than that on the nod. Apparently, Obama needs this new money to stop the US public sector - already bloated by reckless Washington budgets - from shrinking. Thus does... [read more]
'Tis the season for budget hearings in local governments across our land. Budgets are not particularly sexy. But budgets are important for the conduct of local government. Budgets are where local governments enshrine priorities by encasing priorities in specific allocations of cold, hard cash. The city council bloggers around the country... [read more]
Guest Blog By Bill Bott, Consulting Partner for the Change and Innovation Agency This month the CIO of California, Teri Takai, released some news about some changes that have the potential to benefit her customers, her partners, and ultimately the citizens of a state that could use all the good news from their government they can get.... [read more]
A new OMB memo regarding administrative costs has been issued ahead of more substantive guidance due in June. But according to state and local officials, the price for transparency and accountability will be a complex number to figure. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 set forth to provide monetary aid accompanied... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...