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Advice on Running a Government Agency Like a Startup, from Someone Who’s Tried It

Harvard Business

18F was borne, in part, out of the Obama administration’s attempts to funnel startup-style ingenuity into the government , particularly after the disastrous launch of Healthcare.gov. I asked Godbout about how innovation teams work in government. Innovators were going to parachute in and save government. It’s too big.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The Pharma PPM Toolbox Conference 2024 April, 17-18, Basel, Switzerland The event is dedicated to discussing the key success factors of project portfolio management in the pharmaceutical industry – portfolio evaluation, prioritization, and optimization.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. “If you don’t like the results you are getting, then you need to change the design of the organization.” The stakes, in other words, were high.

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