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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. These are rather ambiguous bodies.

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Indiana DOC works with Mi-Case to fast-track offender management system launch on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2021, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) awarded a contract to Mi-Case , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, to replace its legacy systems managing case data across the state’s corrections facilities. Mi-Case provides live, fully integrated case management software that replaced IDOC’s legacy systems.

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26 July 2017 | The Creation of Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, By Ken Meier

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The Public Management Research Association—through its flagship journal, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory ( JPART )—has always stressed building knowledge through theoretically informed analysis. Our only requirement is that addresses important topics in public management, governance, and public administration.

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Boosting Emotional Intelligence-A Key to Improved Local Government Working Relationships

Public Administration Associates

In late spring, I had the honor and privilege of giving the opening keynote talk at the UW-Whitewater Local Government Leadership Workshop. The ten strategies I presented to the group of about 50 local government administrators from southern Wisconsin were the following: Pay Attention to Your Own Emotions First. Shut Up and Listen.

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Collaborating effectively in government with Google Workspace

Google Public Sector

Just ask Lynn Martin, who recently emphasized that collaboration tools can help government employees retain top talent and drive mission success. In 2023, technology-based changes will have some of their greatest impact in the most vital, least-noticed part of government services: the lives of government workers themselves.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. But it is also a management failure of local government. And the State governments can vary wildly on their support.

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The recent natural disasters centered in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico have prompted many to look at government with fresh eyes. Earlier calls to “drain the swamp” seemed distant if not incongruous to presidential tweets that waxed confident, proud and even deferential to government and government officials.

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