Obama Year One: An Assessment

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According to The Public Manager, a government management journal published by Bureaucrat Inc., a nonprofit, good government organization, President Barack Obama gets high grades for his management reform of the executive branch having aready made some significant changes that are on the right track.

Many of the management ideas and reforms the administration has instituted are similar to those the journal suggested in its winter 2007 and spring 2008 issues - as many as 20 recommendations. Those ideas were generated by a group of former government officials and private sector executives that Cisco brought together in the summer of 2007, months before the two political parties had nominated candidates for president. Many of the recommendations focused on technology to bring about needed management reforms and to improve government performance. More reliance on telework, relying on younger workers to infuse tradition-bound agencies with new technologies, greater transparency, and the use of Web 2.0 technologies and the changing role of the chief information officer were topics writers focused on.


Obama Year One: An Assessment