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Boosting Agility for State and Local Government Finance & Budget Offices

Government Technology Insider

Despite the abundance of modern solutions for transforming financial planning practices, agency finance and budget offices have been some of the last areas to modernize. Public sector agencies need to be able to react quickly to legislative mandates or changes in revenue estimates, as well as unplanned emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Creating a strategic approach to government continuity

AWS Public Sector Blog

Securing critical digital assets is vital to continue delivering key public services in a crisis, as citizens depend on many of these services more than ever in austere conditions. Moving digital assets to the cloud is one of the first steps governments can take to secure their public services against large-scale disruptions.

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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

This funding typically makes up only approximately one-third of the federal budget, with a majority of spending going toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and mandatory programs that fall outside the purview of annual appropriations. The way forward Several legislative reforms would help put a stop to these troubling developments.

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How agencies can use enterprise risk management to implement new legislation

Partnership for Public Service

When deployed successfully as a formal part of the federal planning and budgeting process, ERM can help agencies identify, prioritize and respond to risks, often leading to more informed decisions and increased programmatic success. Employ a top-down and bottom-up approach.

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Reflection on public service leadership in the new year

Partnership for Public Service

Hosted by the Public Service Leadership Institute and the Senior Executives Association, the event convened more than a thousand participants in person and virtually to hear from keynote speakers, to network, and to learn from leaders inside and outside government. As a result, public trust in government is fragile and declining.

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Retaining Generation X and Generation Z federal employees: Three ways Congress can help

Partnership for Public Service

In response, the Partnership for Public Service, with support from ServiceNow, recently published, “ Retaining My Generation: Retention Strategies for Generation X and Generation Z Federal Employees ,” which highlights how to maintain an effective workforce by focusing on the generational values of federal employees.

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Overcome Manual App Testing Challenges to Drive Modernization: Insights from California CIO Academy

Government Technology Insider

Add in policy changes mid-sprint that occur from legislative sessions, and it becomes an unruly, unmanageable task with deadlines that continue to push out.” Wiri mentioned that one of the biggest challenges to modernizing public services is the limitations of manual app testing.