Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In a forthcoming book, I define performance management as a continuous and cyclical process of making data-informed decisions to improve organizational outcomes. Over the last few decades, these systems have become ubiquitous in almost every aspect of local government management.

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Public Works Group Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Schedule : The ticking clockfrom implementation to completion, close out, and acceptance. CMAR (Construction Manager at Risk) : Contractor in early, builds with a price capteamwork meets accountability. The post Beyond the Blueprint: Contracting 101 first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. Separate lanes, clear rules.

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PubWorks Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When working with Public Works departments around the country, we often hear the struggles that organizations face daily. The biggest thing we hear from public works departments is that they are still relying on homemade databases, paper files or memory to keep track of assets, work activities and job costs.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JUNE 1, 2021

Emergency managers are no exception. Sometimes the position of emergency manager reports to a senior appointed official like the public works director or the fire chief. I was fortunate to work for a senior appointed official—a Deputy County Executive. Emergency managers are no exception.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Working with AWS Partner OpenGov on a new solution, Grand Island’s finance department saved 1,000 hours of manual labor—equating to half the time of a full-time staffer. It can now quickly scale to add more data systems and sets without purchasing or managing new hardware.

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

Working capital management is a managerial strategy that monitors and uses current assets (e.g., This integral part of sound financial management uses a variety of strategic tools to manage cash flows. In our research study, we evaluate one working capital management strategic tool: interfund transfers.

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PubWorks Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What’s the right mix for Public Works? Public Works departments will always have demand maintenance issues to contend with and while most recognize the benefits of adopting a planned maintenance approach, it can be hard to implement. How PubWorks Helps.

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