Historically, there's been an unfortunate and unproductive divide between people who have the same goal of getting government to make more informed and data-driven decisions. On one side, there are ...

Outlining a performance appraisal program is the easy part of performance management. Putting it into practice takes much more time and effort; however, with a well-constructed outline that describes ...

The new Department of Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program is about performance and results. Working in an organization where employees know what is expected, where there is a shared ...

In a surprise pre-Christmas move the Trump administration issued new guidance directing federal agencies to omit performance information from the President’s Budget. To justify the change, the White ...

Promising findings from pay-for-performance programs can provide a foundation on which states and districts can build programs and policy. A chemistry teacher in front of her classroom in Texas. Texas ...

Medical movers and shakers convened in Los Angeles this week — more than 600 of them — to assess the first five years and chart the next five of the country’s largest health care pay for performance ...

Do you know your loyalty program's effective discount rate? Measuring the health of your loyalty program requires more than just evaluating database size or member spend. The true value of a loyalty ...

Most of us have a pretty simple model of how a computer works. The CPU fetches instructions and data from memory, executes them, and writes data back to memory. That model is a good enough abstraction ...