McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
JANUARY 14, 2025
Organizational strength depends on sustaining good performance. Our new survey shows that five practices could bolster long-term health.
NLC (National League of Cities)
JANUARY 14, 2025
Co-authored by Lina Choe, NLC Intern, Housing and Community Development Over 21 million renter households are spending more than 30% of their monthly income on housing costs. In 2023, over fifty percent of Black (56.2%), Hispanic (53.2%) and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (51.7%) households spent more than 30% of their income on housing costs.
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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
JANUARY 14, 2025
Exploring the implications of a new demographic reality brought on by falling fertility and increasing longevity.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 14, 2025
In a previous role as a federal cyber warfare training systems director, CDW Government Federal CTO Peter Dunn used to dissect malicious code and determine how to manipulate and work with it. Thanks to that experience, Dunn sees significant opportunities for federal agencies to deploy artificial intelligence to detect malicious threats and alert operations to respond to them.
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The 2025 Business Owner Survey delivers key insights for cities, counties, and state agencies working to enhance online services. Top insights: 97% of business owners say digital access to government services is essential. Licensing and tax processes remain outdated, slowing efficiency and increasing administrative burdens. Younger entrepreneurs expect fully online, self-service options, signaling a need for modernization.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
JANUARY 14, 2025
US consumers sentiment and their spending patterns have been out of sync. Heres how executives can make sense of the mixed signals.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 14, 2025
I never did write about Jackson, Mississippi 's water crisis a few years, when the water treatment plant failed leaving the city's 150,000 high and dry ( Jackson Water Crisis , NRDC). The city is predominately black and the predominately white State Legislature stepped in in what could be considered racist ways (" The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism ," NonProfit Quarterly ).
Public Administration Today brings together the best content for professionals in the public administration field from the widest variety of thought leaders.
ParkTalk podcast
JANUARY 14, 2025
As a community leader in sustainability, the Naperville Park District adopts various practices that is beneficial to the environment. Join Bailey Arnold of the American Lung Association, as well as Clint Burnell and Lee Meyer from the Naperville Park District discuss biodiesel fuel and the purpose of the B20 Club. As a community leader in sustainability, the Naperville Park District adopts various practices that is beneficial to the environment.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
JANUARY 14, 2025
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if youre looking for a quick win.
Princeton Public Library
JANUARY 14, 2025
The post New year, new reads appeared first on Princeton Public Library.
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
JANUARY 14, 2025
Our CEO Excellence research offers insights into how public sector leaders can maximize their impact during the transition.
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Get this municipal maintenance guide that provides municipalities with a detailed and structured approach to maintaining city infrastructure. This guide outlines systematic inspection procedures and best practices, ensuring the safety, longevity, and operational efficiency of municipal assets. From roadways and bridges to public buildings and utilities, the guide covers all aspects of municipal maintenance.
AWS Public Sector Blog
JANUARY 14, 2025
The US Federal Government has endless opportunity to leverage assistive, innovative technologies, including generative artificial intelligence (AI) , to help fulfill their missions. Im curious, like many of you, about the opportunities technology provides federal-wide to help customers solve complex problems (from defense missions to fraud detection to Earth observing data for climate change) and provide a citizen-first experience.
State Tech Magazine
JANUARY 14, 2025
In the past, we used to sell technology. Now, we sell use cases, says Rocky Grubb, a CDW solution architect team lead for the collaboration practice. Grubb, who manages the CDW presales team for contact centers, explains that a technician cannot start chatting with customers about generative artificial intelligence and expect a successful experience.
AWS Public Sector Blog
JANUARY 14, 2025
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance (Tech Alliance) is a global coalition that brings together AWS customers, AWS Partners , government bodies, workforce development organizations, and educational institutions to address skills gaps and prepare learners for in-demand tech jobs. Each year, employers look for talent with the most relevant technical skills so they can benefit from the advancements enabled by cloud computing.
Park Leaders
JANUARY 14, 2025
“They’ve done studies observing children in a park. They issue the more organized places like a like a soccer field or basketball court, but the kids always end up on the edges where the trees or the brush is just messing around.” Childhood adventures in nature often shape a lifetime of curiosity and exploration. Yet, opportunities for unstructured play are disappearing, leaving todays kids with fewer chances to discover the world around them.
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Breckenridge’s short-term rental boom—over 4,200 licenses —put intense pressure on the town’s small staff and manual processes. Facing compliance and efficiency challenges, the town teamed up with GovOS to automate its STR licensing. The new system: Cut admin time Reduced errors Improved the experience for property owners and town staff Discover the full impact of automation on Breckenridge’s STR management—download the case study.
The CIO Council
JANUARY 14, 2025
This year, agencies publicly reported more than 1,700 ways they are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance their missions and deliver better experiences to the public. While the full listing of use cases is available here , I want to highlight five key takeaways you need to know: 1. Compared to 2023, Federal agencies have more than doubled their AI use in the last year, citing improvements to operational efficiency and the execution of their missions as key drivers for increased utilizati
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 14, 2025
In " Know your market " I commented on some pretty obvious disconnects between Utah and the products being hawked by some of the vendors. Similarly, DC announces a tax freeze on downtown commercial space for "retail, grocery, or child care" (" D.C. launches Office to Anything conversion tax incentive, commits millions ," Washington Business Journal ).
DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
JANUARY 14, 2025
Grammar Kerfuffles: Third Installment ( View the other installments here ) As I edit drafts of our grant narratives, I enjoy seeing effective use of the not onlybut also construction from time to time. Not onlybut also connotes a dual outcome, emphasizing another level of benefits (or impact or needs, etc.) that surprise the reader beyond what they anticipated.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 14, 2025
I can't believe in the Eastern Market entry (" Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my unrealized master plan for the market ") I forgot to mention a key security element as part of the transportation element. Retractable bollards at key entry points to the pedestrianized area. I did list it in the comments once I remembered. When I ran a farmers market in the Brookland neighborhood of DC, we narrowly missed having an incident by an older man who basically said he was above t
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Maintaining municipal operations is no small task, especially when budgets are tight and public expectations are high. In this webinar, we’ll explore how local governments can streamline their maintenance operations while ensuring safety, compliance, and efficiency. What You’ll Gain: Proven strategies for effective inspection management Insight into leveraging digital tools Practical tips for addressing common maintenance challenges Examples of municipalities that have achieved success.
Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast
JANUARY 14, 2025
This is a different type of Disaster Zone Podcast. The host, Eric Holdeman becomes the interviewee and Kim Guevara, is the interviewer. Kim has been researching different aspects of what it means to be an emergency manager. In her words, a crisis athlete. This is not about push-ups, but rather what does it take to be successful in becoming prepared for disasters, responding to them and then the disaster recovery.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 14, 2025
I wish I could score one of these special MetroCards. This is likely one of the only times Trump's picture will feature in this blog. Trying not to think about the coming presidency of Donald Trump, but this Washington Post article, " D.C. prepares for more than 200,000 inauguration visitors and protesters ," and others (" WMATA Inauguration service information ," WMATA) reminded me.
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