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John M. Kamensky

Associate Partner at IBM Center for The Business of Government

Washington DC, United States

I am passionate about creating government that is results-oriented, performance-based, citizen-focused, and collaborative in nature.

-- Currently serve as a senior fellow in IBM's Center for The Business of Government thought leadership group and as an associate partner with IBM's Global Business Service's public sector practice.

-- Served as Vice President Al Gore's deputy for his reinventing government initiative, out of the White House and Office of Management and Budget, for 8 years. Helped craft large-scale reform initiatives, such as introducing customer service measures, performance-based organizations, and changing executive appraisal standards to focus on performance.

-- Served as an assistant director for government management, and for intergovernmental affairs, at the Government Accountability Office for 16 years.

Specialties: Managing for Results, including: strategic planning, performance measurement, Balanced Scorecard, creating market-based incentives for performance, mapping stakeholder networks, and the use of IT to foster collaborative teams. Current focus is on providing insights on how government may operate in 2040.

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Academic 0
Author 54
Influencer 0
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 54

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Company Type: Enterprise
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
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Areas of Expertise

Analytics 30.04
COVID19 30.27
Culture 30.52
Customer Experience 30.04
Future of Work 30.05
GovTech 34.46
Innovation 30.09
Management 31.52
Open Innovation 30.11

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Publications

53 Article/Blogs
Accountability and Performance Update – Aug 26-Sep 1, 2024
Linkedln
September 13, 2024
After agencies reached, and in some cases surpassed, the White House’s 50% in-the-office mandate for federal teleworkers, some workplace experts have said it’s well past time to stop talking about the numbers — and instead, focus on outcomes.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Sept. 2-8, 2024
Linkedln
September 09, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s grant programs for coastal habitat restoration have different metrics for success, depending on the project – oyster reef restoration will have different metrics than dam removal and fish passage projects.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – July 15-21, 2024
Linkedln
July 22, 2024
Courtesy of the Center for Accountability & Performance, American Society for Public Administration.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – July 1-7, 2024
Linkedln
July 08, 2024
This proposed legislation authorizes $41 million each year through Fiscal Year 2028 to support states in improving their information technology systems, adopting advanced analytics and artificial intelligence technologies, and strengthening data security and privacy protections.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – June 24-30, 2024
Linkedln
June 30, 2024
CAP Board Member Rakesh Mohan retired this past week. His 21 years as the director of Idaho’s Office of Performance Evaluations was praised by Gov. Brad Little: “Rakesh and his team have set a high standard for providing impartial analysis of complex issues and evidence-based recommendations.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – June 10-16, 2024
Linkedln
June 17, 2024
Soon, the Supreme Court will decide a case that could severely limit the discretion Congress can give the executive branch in the policymaking process. The fallout from this decision could have a lasting impact on the administrative state and how Congress approaches policymaking.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – June 3-9, 2024
Linkedln
June 10, 2024
What made it possible to pass the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014? What made it effective? How can we replicate its success in a rapidly changing data landscape? One of its advocates, Amy Edwards Holmes, recounts the story.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – May 27-June 2, 2024
Linkedln
June 03, 2024
The Navy wants to piggyback on the Army’s data analytics efforts through a new policy that encourages secure information sharing, the Navy’s chief information officer said.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – May 20-26, 2024
Linkedln
May 27, 2024
Under a House-passed bill, OMB would create metrics and collect data to measure the quality of service delivery by federal agencies. Agency officials would have to establish their own metrics and work throughout various offices and components to ensure compliance, while also collaborating with the new federal lead at OMB.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – May 6 – 12, 2024
Linkedln
May 21, 2024
A long-time official at the Office of Management and Budget is taking on a new role at the Social Security Administration. Dustin Brown is the SSA's new chief operating officer and acting chief of staff. . . And in related news...

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – May 13-19, 2024
Linkedln
May 20, 2024
Three Democratic senators are pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to prioritize stronger accountability standards as it negotiates a new one-year contract with Oracle Cerner to deliver its electronic health record system.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Apr 22-28, 2024
Linkedln
April 29, 2024
These updates mark reporting from the first quarter of the FY 2024-25 performance period. They describe the progress being made in major federal agencies and highlight significant milestones or barriers along the way. Along with a continuation of many initiatives from the previous two-year term, several agencies also announced new goals spanning a range of new policy commitments.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Apr 15-21, 2024
Linkedln
April 22, 2024
RouteFifty States that want to tap universities and philanthropies to find solutions to policy challenges using the best research, evidence and data should look at how one state mastered the communications and logistics essential for effective partnerships.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Apr 8-14, 2024
Linkedln
April 15, 2024
There is a growing body of research that suggests investment is needed in “evidence-using systems” that facilitate the use of evidence. Such systems, or interventions, to facilitate evidence use span from linear (i.e. traditional dissemination efforts) to relational (i.e. fellowships or research-practice partnerships) and systems (i.e. leadership, infrastructure) approaches.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Apr 1-7, 2024
Linkedln
April 08, 2024
“Best practices, we'd argue, should be something like plug-and-play models that others can pick up and use with a reasonable assurance of success.” . . . . However, there “are five reasons we are concerned when a best practice is ballyhooed by a government official.”

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Mar 18-24, 2024
Linkedln
March 25, 2024
Using evaluation reports to support evidence-based policymaking faces a series of barriers because of leaks in the evidence pipeline. A major leak occurs because many evaluation reports cannot be accessed by research clearinghouses, which scan academic journals, government websites, and research funders to identify studies that have assessed program impacts.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Mar 18-24, 2024
Linkedln
March 11, 2024
Using evaluation reports to support evidence-based policymaking faces a series of barriers because of leaks in the evidence pipeline. A major leak occurs because many evaluation reports cannot be accessed by research clearinghouses, which scan academic journals, government websites, and research funders to identify studies that have assessed program impacts.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Jan 22 – 28, 2024
Linkedln
February 29, 2024
The performance.gov website has posted a wrap up of the progress made by agencies toward their FY2022-23 Agency Priority Goals. A blog post highlights some accomplishments and provides links to details to progress on all 85 APGs.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Feb 19-25, 2024
Linkedln
February 26, 2024
Some companies continue to survive and thrive despite the challenges. Why do these companies manage to succeed, year after year—operationally, financially, and otherwise—while others don’t? Twenty-plus years of proprietary McKinsey research tells us that one of the main reasons is organizational health.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Feb 12 - 18, 2024
Linkedln
February 19, 2024
The goal is to organize around the customer, not around the delivery programs; research shows that when citizens feel they are treated fairly and professionally, trust in government increases. Our presenters have first-hand experience grappling with these issues and will be able to provide webinar participants with a real-time picture of the progress and challenges they face.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Feb 5 - 11, 2024
Linkedln
February 12, 2024
Improving program data practices is one of many aims of the Commerce Data Governance Board (CDGB). To support bureaus in their evidence-building practices, the CDGB chartered the Metrics Working Group in August 2022.The Metrics Working Group was specifically set up to uncover obstacles and explore pathways for improving the use of data for program design, delivery, and evaluation.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Maryland's New State Plan - The First in a Decade
Linkedln
February 08, 2024
Twelve months into his administration, Maryland Governor Wes Moore rolls out a State Plan via a townhall videocast to an audience of more than five thousand state employees that details the plan’s ten priorities that served as the underpinning for his State of the State presentation to the legislature the night before.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Jan 15 – 21, 2024
Linkedln
January 22, 2024
While awash in data, clear insights helping government and those it funds improve performance and efficiency are hard to come by. That’s why investment in data infrastructure at every level – federal, state, and local – benefits everyone up and down the federal financial assistance funding chain.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – April 4-10, 2022
IBM
April 11, 2022
Courtesy of the Center for Accountability & Performance, American Society for Public Administration.
Pandemic Waste Is Enough to Make a Person Cry
Federal News Network (Interview with Comptroller General Gene Dodaro)

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Tags: GovTech, COVID19

Accountability and Performance Update – August 2 – 8, 2021
LinkedIn
August 09, 2021
Courtesy of the Center for Accountability & Performance, American Society for Public Administration

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Tags: GovTech

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Accountability and Performance Update – June 17-23, 2024
Linkedln
June 24, 2024
Former OMB Executive Dustin Brown joins the GovNavigators Show to talk about his over two decades at OMB, serving for four different presidents, and why he left to help improve one of the most important federal agencies in the government - the Social Security Administration.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

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