Fall/Winter 2012 Edition

We are in the midst of an exciting, engaging, yet trying period marked by uncertainty, significant challenges, undeniable opportunities, and indelible aspirations.

Since its inception, the country’s credit union system has expanded and grown to serve over 93 million Americans. Credit unions generally maintain traditional lending standards and risk portfolios.

Sound financial management is essential to the effective stewardship of taxpayer dollars and enables federal agency decision-makers to make tough choices on day-to-day and long-term management challenges.

Leading the Office of eDiplomacy within the U.S. Department of State

Advancing Public Safety Through Community Policing

A presidential election year provides an opportunity to step back and consider major issues and management challenges facing government executives.

Most government activities are managed through programs in agencies. The pace of technology and business change is causing leading organizations that have always collaborated to move to a new model of managing activities from a cross-program view.

In the next four years the executive and legislative branches will pick up the recurring question of additional intelligence community reform.

Staff from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have been visiting agencies in recent weeks to explain a new performance framework they have developed for the federal government.

This article examines the state of performance budgeting in the 50 American states.

Over the past three years, the Obama administration has been encouraging federal agencies to engage citizens in solving public problems by increasing the use of electronic participation platforms.