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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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Author 64
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Entrepreneur 0
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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 30.71
Customer Experience 30.03
Future of Work 30.05
GovTech 35.09
Innovation 30.10
Management 31.90
Open Innovation 30.09

Industry Experience

Publications

62 Article/Blogs
Accountability and Performance Update – Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2025
Linkedln
March 03, 2025
Outcomes-Driven Legislation (ODL) or Outcomes-Driven Policy (ODP) is a new approach to policymaking that focuses on establishing clear goals or outcomes for policy interventions, rather than dictating specific solutions or implementation methods. To ensure the effectiveness of an ODL/ODP policy, standardized metrics of program effectiveness are established and constantly updated.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Feb 17 - 23, 2025
Linkedln
February 24, 2025
The British government has published an updated version of the Performance management framework for the Senior Civil Service. The government briefed that top civil servants could “face the sack if they fail to find savings”, and the new rules do nudge in that direction. More welcome, however, is the revised framework’s potential to raise the floor on performance management across the civil service.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Jan 1 - 5, 2025
Linkedln
January 06, 2025
Foresight evaluation is having a moment, characterized by an increased demand for assessment of foresight initiatives. Foresight evaluation needs to address specific challenges such as complexity, long-time horizons, the qualitative nature of the work, and documenting largely intangible and multiple foresight outcomes.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Dec 23-31, 2024Accountability and Performance Update – Dec 23-31, 2024
Linkedln
December 31, 2024
What happens when federal department leaders are encouraged to identify their short-term priorities and adopt measurable targets for program improvement by a set date? After a decade of reporting measures and targets for two agency priority goals (one for Transportation, the other for HUD), it is possible to draw some inferences about this mechanism for improving performance and accountability.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Dec 23-31, 2024
Linkedln
December 31, 2024
What happens when federal department leaders are encouraged to identify their short-term priorities and adopt measurable targets for program improvement by a set date? After a decade of reporting measures and targets for two agency priority goals (one for Transportation, the other for HUD), it is possible to draw some inferences about this mechanism for improving performance and accountability.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Dec 2 - 8, 2024
Linkedln
December 09, 2024
There is absolutely nothing in the Musk-Ramaswamy pronouncements about making the government more efficient by causing it to work better. They can’t bring about performance improvements in government by themselves; they need to work with those inside the agencies seeking a more efficient government.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Nov 18 - 24, 2024
Linkedln
November 25, 2024
The Modernizing Data Practices to Improve Government Act (H.R. 10151) cleared the House Oversight and Accountability Committee this past week. It is the companion piece to a Senate bill that was introduced in September. Under the bill, the CDO Council would be kept alive until 2031 and it addresses impediments to the adoption and interoperability of emerging and AI technologies.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Nov 12 - 17, 2024
Linkedln
November 18, 2024
Performance management comes with a passel of challenges and pitfalls. But here are 11 prescriptions for dealing with these pitfalls. Item #1? – “acknowledge that performance management systems are an integral part of government – like budgeting or procurement – and not just an adjunct effort.”

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

Accountability and Performance Update – Nov 4 - 11, 2024
Linkedln
November 11, 2024
"Performance Matters" is published by the Commonwealth Secretariat, serving as a central resource for knowledge management across the 56 Commonwealth nations. It was officially launched at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa in October 2024.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

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

2 Author Newsletters
Accountability and Performance Update – Nov 4 - 11, 2024
Linkedln
November 11, 2024
"Performance Matters" is published by the Commonwealth Secretariat, serving as a central resource for knowledge management across the 56 Commonwealth nations. It was officially launched at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa in October 2024. The primary audience for this newsletter consists of public policy makers throughout the Commonwealth who are engaged in designing and implementing world-class government performance management systems in their respective countries.

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Tags: Culture, GovTech, Management

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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