• Strategies for dealing with political challenges and opportunities of performance measurement.
• Performance Management Framework – refining our understanding and developing a presentation to communicate what public sector performance management is, why it is important, and how to do it.

Congressman Jim Moran, (D –VA)

Steve Kelman – Discussion Leader

Jeff Tryens – Executive Director, Oregon Progress Board

Neil Bryant – Oregon State Senator

Rob Patridge – Oregon State Representative

• What are the political challenges? How do they impede the likely effectiveness of performance measurement and management?
• What are the political opportunities? How do they advance the likely effectiveness of performance measurement and management?
• Who are the key political players? How do you get them interested in a constructive manner?

Jack Donahue – Discussion Leader

Mark Roosevelt – Co-author of Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993

President and CEO, Mass. Biomedical Initiative

• Why is political support for education performance measures so strong both in Massachusetts and around the country?
• What are the opportunities and problems strong political and citizens support present?
• Could these same measures or similar forms be politically viable for other policy areas?

Elaine Kamarck - Discussion Leader

Thomas Smith – Organizational Performance Management Executive, IRS

• What are the political challenges? How do they impede the likely effectiveness of performance measurement and management?
• What are the political opportunities? How do they advance the likely effectiveness of performance measurement and management?
• Who are the key political players? How do you get them interested in a constructive manner?

Open discussion

• What gives (or doesn’t give) some performance measures political interest?
• What are the political challenges (opportunities) impeding (advancing) the effective use of performance measures?
• Who are the key political players? How do you engage them in a constructive manner?
• How do you deal with conflicting political objectives?
• Possible strategies to increase interest/diminish interest/redirect interest

Dutch Leonard and Bob Kaplan - Discussion Leaders

Joe Dear – Chief of Staff, State of Washington

• Testing the Balanced Scorecard to Organize Alignment and Engagement across Organizations (and Jurisdictions)
• The Challenge of Developing "Learning" Measures

Presentation – Chris Zook

Questions and Initial Discussion – Executive Session Members

• Does the framework explain what public sector performance management is, why it is important, and how it can be useful?
• Does the framework need to do anything else? How well does it do that?
• Are examples helpful? How can they be refined? Other examples?
• Should this be a product of the Executive Session?

• Performance measures, the press, and public
• Incentives and performance measurement
• Refining the model – testing it at the FAA

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