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What is Strategic Procurement, and How Can Cooperative Purchasing Help?

American City & Country

In this blog, we’ll explore key best practices and show how leveraging group/cooperative purchasing can help you master the art of strategic sourcing. Develop a Strategic Procurement Plan Procurement shouldn’t be reactive; it should be proactive.

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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

The City successfully advocated for a change to state law that would open up their ability to use in rem code lien foreclosure, a tool developed by Community Progress in 2019 for the city of Mobile. Our work in Birmingham uplifted the need for a better tool to move deteriorated properties stuck in the code enforcement cycle to new ownership.

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Agencies Seek Gains Through Precision Modernization

GovLoop

The systems that once served us well have been adapted to respond to laws or business processes that they weren’t built to support,” the program description states. CASE IN POINT: As part of its 2023–2026 IT Strategic Plan, the U.S.

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A recap of our Excellence in Government Fellows 35th Anniversary Alumni Event  

Partnership for Public Service

In the Excellence in Government Fellows Program, leaders develop skills that could help them plan for the ethical and effective use of AI.

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Meet Our Featured Contributor Cohort

GovLoop

As an OPM Associate Director, Peter recently worked with the federal agencies tasked with hiring the talent needed to implement the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. in Criminal Law and currently is pursuing an M.A. He is a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, focused on improving federal talent management.

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2024 Trends for Online Community Engagement

Social Pinpoint

It will be interesting to examine the differences in how different parts of the world, with varying data protection laws, approach the normalization of AI tools – perhaps a topic for next year’s trends article.

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Effective Workforce Case Management Helps Maintain Employee Trust

GovLoop

And with President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce calling for the creation of a governmentwide diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) plan and agency-specific strategic plans, the order gives workers a clearer path than they had before to lodge complaints.