William D. Eggers
Executive Director at Deloitte
Exec. Director, Deloitte Center for Government Insights. Author, Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems, available now
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Aug 12, 2024 |
governing.com | Stephen Goldsmith |William D. Eggers |Zina Hutton
The actual authority of mayors derives from state laws and local charters. However, their ability to accomplish broad goals or take on complex or “wicked” problems depends in large part on their apparent authority, which derives from democracy itself. The public recognizes the mayor (or in some cases the elected county executive) as the person elected to lead them across many domains.
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Jun 4, 2024 |
governing.com | Stephen Goldsmith |Betsy Gardner |William D. Eggers |Jared Brey
For a city government to furnish high-quality service, engage well with its communities and solve challenging issues, it must operate as an enterprise, not as a collection of discrete agencies. And that approach requires not just application programming interfaces and point solutions but an enterprise system — a technology platform and data-sharing policies that further citywide solutions and enterprisewide data literacy.
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May 6, 2024 |
governing.com | Stephen Goldsmith |William D. Eggers |Jared Brey |Zina Hutton
Leaders of government at all levels who aspire to create innovative organizations always need help. That help might come from borrowing and adapting the ideas of another jurisdiction. At Harvard, we ran an Innovations in American Government program for many years that collected thousands of ideas for that purpose. Support for innovation can also come from outside of government, such as the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ important funding of the first government innovation delivery teams in 2011.
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Apr 9, 2024 |
governing.com | William D. Eggers |Donald F. Kettl |Girard Miller |Zina Hutton
Our research center spent thousands of hours over the last year exploring a simple question: How can we achieve quantum leaps in public-sector performance? At the Deloitte Center for Government Insights, we pursued this question in a context of widespread public doubt, where trust in government is at or near all-time lows. What we discovered might shock many doubters: We may be on the verge of a public-sector renaissance.
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Mar 26, 2024 |
fedscoop.com | William D. Eggers
Government leaders today find themselves grappling with an epochal technological upheaval. As artificial intelligence unfurls its wings, a fervent dialogue ensues on how government agencies might wield this technological juggernaut to streamline operations and confront the thorniest challenges of our era. Surveying the global landscape of governmental evolution, we see reason for optimism.
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