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Optimizing Performance of Government Enterprise
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by YankeeJim | December 27, 2011 at 06:17 am
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Optimizing Performance of Government Enterprise
I spent much time this past year referring to my book, Smart Data, Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy ©2010 James A. George and James A. Rodger, Wiley Publishing. The book contains the description of a strategy and approach that is most applicable to optimizing the performance of government enterprise.
http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Data-Performance-Optimization-Engineering/dp/0470473258
David Brooks said, somewhat flippantly, that we could end poverty in America by simply giving people the money we spend on poverty programs directly. While that may not cure the problem, the point is that such action might be more effective than the current approach.
The problem is our management approach to government. It isn’t working. Asking President Obama to fix that is fair. However, expecting him to actually improve his own performance is a little late because it takes time, experience, and dedicated focus to accomplish that and incumbents don’t have time. They have to do the job with the skills they have.
So, that brings me to the second book that I wrote this year called How to Select and American President ©2011 James A. George, All Rights Reserved. I am expanding that to address How American Voters Can Improve Selection of Representatives © 2012 James A. George, All Rights Reserved, and maybe arouse my publisher with your help, of course.
“We're not in a new progressive era, writes David Brooks: "The governmental challenge is very different today than it was in the progressive era. Back then, government was small and there were few worker safety regulations. The problem was a lack of institutions. Today, government is large, and there is a thicket of regulations, torts and legal encumbrances. The problem is not a lack of institutions; it’s a lack of institutional effectiveness. The United States spends far more on education than any other nation, with paltry results. It spends far more on health care, again, with paltry results. It spends so much on poverty programs that if we just took that money and handed poor people checks, we would virtually eliminate poverty overnight. In the progressive era, the task was to build programs; today the task is to reform existing ones."”
Via the Wonkbook Washington Post
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at 17:17 on December 27th, 2011
Clinton did something like that. I am sure that Obama could as well if he was so inclined.