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Byline: Ethan Geringer-Sameth New York City Health + Hospitals is cutting new adult and pediatric primary care appointment times in half to move more patients through the door as wait [...]

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is nobbling the electoral commission W HEN MEXICO'S president decides he wants to do something, he does not give up easily. Andrés Manuel López Obrador [...]

A new science agency is part of a plan to transform fundamental research 'I want the UK to continue to be a global science superpower,' said Boris Johnson last year. [...]

Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) on March 27 unveiled plans to build a AED2 billion ($544 million) sustainable city. Spread over 7.2 million sq ft, Sharjah Sustainable City will [...] more...

As the nationwide recession that began in 2008 lingered, Douglas County, Nevada, needed to combat the reality of being a rural community in a state with one of the most [...]

Solid leadership and effective equality impact assessment framework are among the strong points of the single equality scheme of the UK's Learning and Skills Council (LSC), based on an independent evaluation. It has been found out that LSC emphasizes equality and diversity practice. How LSC has addressed weaknesses, such as lack of full impact assessments, is explained. more...

Indiana is working on plans to build a $25 million state archives building on the Central Canal downtown, taking up green space and adding another institutional user to the Canal [...]

The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) has initiated a two-step approach to simplify the provision of government-funded training. The commission is expected to launch Talentplan, which is an online portal designed to provide a simple framework to help employers understand skills systems in the country. more...

The measures taken by the government like retaining the old officials, to enhance the completion of proposed reforms of the public services and to tackle the issues of pensions and private provisions are described. more...

SINCE 2001, ELEVATED FEARS OF TERRORISM, pandemic diseases, and other critical threats to national security have dominated the headlines and U.S. government policy. With the creation of the Department of [...] more...

Derby, Nottingham and Leicester combined forces in March to market themselves collectively as a 'regional powerhouse'. Mark Wilding reports Mipim 2015 may well have been a game-changing event for the [...] more...

The implementation of the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria in the strategic planning program of the US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp is discussed.

The proposed Department of Homeland Security represents a huge information technology (IT) challenge. It will require the integration of 22 federal government agencies and programs.

This study investigates the strategic adaptation process of public sector organizations using longitudinal data on eight US regulatory agencies. It shows that organizations in general tend to adopt a progressive development of strategies with the passage of their life stages. Furthermore, it suggests that the longitudinal data provide important insights about the dynamics of organizational change. more...

A number of recent legislative and administrative events have dramatically increased interest in planning in public sector organizations. What are the prospects that these planning initiatives will be more successful than those of the past? Is there a more appropriate approach for government planning? In this article Gerald Barkdoll and Morris Bosin examine past planning approaches to determine why they have rarely lived up to expectations. They argue that the traditional comprehensive planning model, which underlies current initiatives such as GPRA (Government Performance and Results Act), does not fit the realities of public sector organizations. They present an alternative approach labelled Targeted Planning. This new approach is characterized by highly focused activities called Targeted Planning Initiatives (TPIs). TPIs conserve scarce resources, are typically short-lived and use a variety of traditional and non-traditional planning techniques to meet clients' specific and most pressing needs. more...

The paradoxes confronting strategic planners in the public sector derived from studies of a public service firm, a hospital and an arts organization are presented. Strategic planners must take into account internal problems, leadership, budgetary constraints, threats and opportunities, and institutional forces to formulate internally and externally oriented purposes for planning. Strategic planning, paradoxically, cannot bring about a formal structure of strategies but is merely an agent to decision-making., The ideas presented in this paper are derived from three empirical studies of strategic planning in the public sector carried out by the authors. In recent years, formal strategic planning [...] more...

In a recent editorial in GPS World's Survey & Construction e-newsletter entitled 'No Joy in Surveyville,' Eric Gakstatter lamented the performance of the GPS constellation for surveying. He is not [...] more...

Regulatory Alert The following is a roundup of selected current regulatory proposals, notices and directives collected from official bulletins and other sources which are deemed reliable. The chart is updated [...] more...

The reasons behind the plans of U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to inspect non-vessel-operating (NVO) carriers, which fail to comply with the country's cargo transportation rules, are presented. Appropriate measures to be taken to ensure that cargo is properly declared are described. more...

In mid-June, former IFA Chairman and Eagle Alliance Partners Managing Partner James H. Amos, Jr. and IFA Vice Pres. of Government Relations John Gay appeared before the U.S. House Subcommittee [...] more...

Imagine strolling through an entire county completely on beautiful nature trails. Now imagine that all of these trails are mapped out and compiled into a comprehensive trails atlas. These are [...]

It is planned that the government's role in media will narrow, and will focus on approving and supervising private activities and foreign investment, on guiding technical upgrading, and on accommodating [...] more...

The services and operations of the US Small Business Administration are discussed.