Publications

The Partnership for Public Service, in collaboration with IBM’s Public Sector Business Analytics & Optimization practice, set out to study federal agencies’ use of analytics and how it helped them achieve better program results. We focused on identifying leading practices that illustrate how data informs decisions and drives meaningful and positive program changes. In particular, we were interested to know how employing good data led to changes in how agencies think about their programs and how it led to programmatic insights that influenced their decisions.

The Partnership for Public Service, with Booz Allen Hamilton, interviewed more than 30 current and former senior federal officials and government experts, on how federal agencies responded to past budget cuts. Their insights and experiences, presented here, are useful for leaders now facing similar challenges, and can assist agencies and members of Congress develop and implement effective strategies as they navigate the difficult path ahead.

The Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte set out to understand what it takes to build a federal government workforce of the future in an era of career flexibility and job fluidity. How do professionals starting their federal careers feel about the agencies they serve and how well are those agencies managing their new class of public servants? This Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® snapshot analysis is based on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 2010 employee survey.

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush supported and Congress approved two of the most significant government reorganizations in decades—the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

The Partnership and Hay Group found a strong disconnect between the desire of federal employees to innovate and the degree to which innovation is encouraged in their workplaces. Six workplace conditions have a high effect on innovation and federal leaders can improve innovation within their agencies by creating an environment in which each of these conditions thrives.

Partnership Vice President for Education and Outreach, Tim McManus, testified before the Senate Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee on efforts to inspire more students into federal service.

The Partnership for Public Service put together a guide to understanding and using staff/manager alignment scores to improvee employee satisfaction.

The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton set out to explore how extensively agencies are planning, with a particular examination of an at-risk occupational area that ironically has responsibility for succession planning for the whole government: the federal HR workforce.

As part of our Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® analysis, based on the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) 2010 employee survey, the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte examined workplace differences among men and women.

The Partnership for Public Service and Grant Thornton LLP surveyed federal PIOs or their designees at the largest federal agencies. The survey shows how PIOs see their roles and responsibilities.