Report identifies top 10 management challenges facing next administration

[The Straight Story]

Report identifies top 10 management challenges facing next administration
By Elizabeth Newell [e-mail] March 31, 2008

The federal government will face a wide range of challenges over the next decade, with retirement and health care reform topping the list, according to a report released on Monday by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

The center identified 10 significant management policy issues expected to confront federal decision-makers and public sector program managers in anticipation of the administration transition and to acknowledge the center's 10th anniversary.

"I think we've started to think in a way the next administration will have to in terms of figuring out what they will need to wrestle with in terms of mission and management issues," said Jonathan Breul, executive director for the Center for the Business of Government. "There's arguably not much chance of a two-term president if he or she doesn't help lead to some solution on those issues."

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The 10 challenges outlined by the center in its report are:

* Fiscal sanity
* Crisis of competence
* Information overload
* Governing without boundaries
* E-government
* Role of contractors
* Results-oriented government
* Green leadership
* Security and privacy in a flat world
* Anticipation of emerging threats and disasters

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[niyad]

1. I guess restoring civil liberties doesn't count

[riverdeep]

4. I've been saying for some time that the entire first term

will be needed just to get us to zero. Just to undo the damage that Dimson has done in the last eight years. Only after that, can we think of progress. That's a total of 12 years behind in things like alternative energy sources, stem cell research, etc. Thanks President Bush, you're a peach.

edit: actually I meant to post this as an independent reply, not a response to anything

[Mountainman]

2. Let's see, I think I heard McCain talking about everyone of those.

Not!

Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. Iraq, the new 100 yrs war!

[Warpy]

3. Firing every person hired during this disgusting 8 years

should be a priority. Let them resubmit resumes if they want to be rehired. Just don't accept degrees from unaccredited bible schools and be very, very careful who gets jobs in the DOJ, State Department, and scientific agencies.

That should take care of the crisis in competence right there.

I would delete e-government and put in restoration of civil rights and the rule of constitutional law.