Article 1. Reforming Business and Government Bureaucracies
Article 2. How to Approach Budget Cuts
Article 3. How to Determine the Correct Staffing Level for a Function
Article 4. Finding the Correct Office Staffing Level
Article 5. Government Bureaucracies and Document Turn-Around Time
Article 6. Traits of Outstanding Organizational Leaders
Article 7. Organizational Reporting and Budget Control Systems
Article 8. Work Place Continuous Improvement
Article 9. Finding the best Analysis Tool
Article 10. Approach to State Government Reform, Budgeting, and Staffing
Article 11. Adaptation of Manufacturing Quality Improvement Techniques to Achieve Efficient Government
Article 12. Which Approach to use in State Government “Cost and Schedule” or “Work Improvement Teams“?
Article 13. How Efficient Government Reform Can Save More Tax Dollars Than Privatization
Article 14. Improving Efficiency in Office Workload Planning and Scheduling
Article 15. What is a Time-Study Analyst and How Does He Do His Job?
Article 16. How your State Compares in the Current Financial Crisis
Article 17. Comparing Terms for Government: Auditing, Restructuring, Reform, and Efficiency.
Article 18. Work Measurement in State Government is Rare and Ignored
Article 19. Assumptions in work Measurement for Staffing
Article 20. Approaches for Different Types of Organizations
Article 21. Centralized Purchasing- The Best Way to Balance State Budgets
Article 22. Functional Restructuring of State Government rather than Departmental Restructuring.
Article 23. The Relationship between Needs, Functions, Funding Formulas, and Performance Budgeting
Article 24. Establishing a Funding Formula for Performance Budgeting.
Article 25. Calculating Approximate Saving from Efficiency Implementations.
Article 26. Reorganizing (Restructuring) using Vertical and Horizontal Functions or their Processes.
Article 27. Overview of State Government Reform.
Article 28. Making Centralized Purchasing Work using Aggressive Negotiation
Article 29. Rethinking Performance Budgeting
Article 30. Example of Current Versus Proposed Performance Budgeting
Article 31. Example Work Improvement Team with Performance Budgeting
Article 32. How to Bring a Bureaucracy under Control
Article 33. Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Approach to Performance Measurement
Article 34. Examples and Rules for Development of Performance Measures
Article 35. What’s needed to Make Performance budgeting work
Article 36. Thousand Die due to Bureaucratic Bungling.
Article 37. Restructuring Government for Quick Response.
Article 38. Government Bureaucracies and Political Favorites
Article 39. Consolidation of City and County Governments
Article 40. How We as Americans Approach Change.
Article 41. Bring jobs to the State by Forming Close Relationships with Future Employers
Article 42. Declaring War on Bureaucratic Complexity
Article 43. Rescuing Homeland Security and protecting America
Article 44. Replacing Bureaucracies with Total Change
Article 45. The Relationship between Inflation, Taxation and Innovation.
Article 46. Why some Computer System Implementations Fail.
Article 47. Changing the Workplace Environment to get Innovation.
Article 48. Changing Government in a Short Time Frame.
Article 49. Practices that Encourage Teamwork and Continuous Improvement.
Article 50. Implementing Work Improvement Teams With Government Employee Unions.
Article 51. Examples of Innovation
Article 52. Preparing for the Loss of our Manufacturing Base to Global Markets
Article 53. Developing a “Sense of Community” and Micro Economies in Depressed Areas.
Article 54. Estimating Workload by Determining Impact Triggers
Article 55. Beneficial Taxes Not an Oxymoron
Article 56. Innovation in Health Care Nurses Become Doctors
Article 57. Putting Public School Funding in the Classroom
Article 58. FDA Allows Thousands to Die Through its Bureaucratic Rules
Article 59. Real Government Reform Versus Political Maneuvering
Article 60. When is Privatization Good for a State?
Article 61. Community Development and Economic Growth
Article 62. Enhanced Auditing a Tool for Government Reform
Article 63. Bureaucracies: What Shapes their Behavior
Article 64. Getting Efficient Government Through Enhanced Auditing
Article 65. Focusing Government Resources on Solving Major Problems Using horizontal Functional Teams
Article 66. Approach to Out of Control Healthcare Costs
Article 67. Comments on 9-11 Report Card and the Nation’s Terrorist Threat
Article 68. How to get Efficiency in City Government
Article 69. Ideas for Child Rearing that the State can Do
Article 70. Dealing With out of Control Union Costs and Strikes
Article 71. The Cause of San Diego’s Collapse
Article 72. Examining the Results of Government Waste
Article 73. Mine Safety Training Appears to be Approaching Human Limits
Article 74. Forecasting America’s Future in the Global Economy
Article 75. Time for Local Governments to Install Wireless Broadband Internet Access
Article 76. The Economy and Real Ethics Reform the backbone of Good Government
Article 77. How to Eliminate Methamphetamine Production in your State
Article 78. New Personal Tracking Systems for Prisons and Mine Safety
Article 79. Getting our Arms Around the Medicaid Problem
Article 80. How to breathe new Life into Contiguous Depressed City Suburbs
Article 81. The latest Innovation in Urban School Management
Article 82. Consolidation of City Governments or Urban Secession? Or Is this the Right Question?
Article 83. Katrina Still a Continuing Bureaucratic Disaster after Six Months
Article 84. The Failure to Manage State Resources due to Obsolete Computer System
Article 85. A Tutorial Roadmap for Medicaid Management Reform
Article 86. Tutorial continued on Implementation of Medicaid Management Reform
Article 87. The Relationship Between Innovation Bureaucracy and Employee Unions
Article 88. Preparing for disaster and getting the Public on Board
Article 89. Focusing America’s Anger and Anxiety on the Root Cause- the Need for Bureaucratic Reform
Article 90. Organizational Analysis- a First Step to Reform
Article 91. Economic Uncertainty in European Union Major Economies
Article 92. Article on Downsizing by Donald Rumsfeld
Article 93. Finding Innovation for Industry and Government
Article 94. Reforming FEMA and Homeland Security
Article 95. Focus on Innovation instead of Results- Measure Results
Article 96. “The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving” TRIZ
Article 97. Getting Innovation by Changing Organization Culture
Article 98. Using Innovation to Win the War in Iraq
Article 99. Understanding the Principle of Economic Self Interest
Article 100. Reforming Bureaucratic Government
Article 101. The Hampton Virginia Innovation Story
Article 102. Government Reform of California Agencies and Commissions
Article 103. Reforming Bureaucratic Government the Subtle way by Bringing Innovation to Government
Article 104. Down Sizing State Government the Easy and Safe Way
Article 105. Making Lean Teams Work in Health Care
Article 106. Where do the Government Reform Savings Come From?
Article 107. Saving the Cost of Foreign Speaking Child Education
Article 108. Making Lean Teams Work in Education
Article 109. After Four Years the FEMA Bureaucratic Disaster Continues
Article 110. Hunker-Down for a Long Recession
Article 111. Example of Lean Teams in the Classroom
Article 112. Using Surplus Government Employees to Take Back Privatized Contracts
Article 113. Private Versus Public Budgeting Practices
Article 114. Avoid Japan’s Mistakes in fixing the US Economy
Article 115. This is My Take on the Current Recession March 2009
Article 116. Private Industry Example of Lean Teams
Article 117. Overcoming Bureaucratic Resistance to Government Reform
Article 118. Examples of Cooperative Innovation
Article 119. Not Just Another Grass Roots Movement to Reform Government
Article 120. Collaborative Innovation between States and Federal Government
Article 121. Setting Standards and developing a Staffing Base
Article 122. How to get Efficiency in Making Decisions
Article 123. The Case for Long Term Implementation of Lean Teams
Article 124. The Core Features of Innovative Reforms
Article 125. How to Have Effective Health Care Reform
Article 126. Ways of Using the New Web Tools
Article 127. My Take on the Current Recession June 2009
Article 128. Using Private Industry techniques to Privatize (Reform) State Government
Article 129. Battery Swapping Vs. Quick Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles
Article 130. States’ Failure to Manage Revenues is only visible in a Deep Recession
Article 131. Measuring Efficiency Efficiently
Article 132. Rethinking Government- Keeping it Simple
Article 133. Government Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Misspent Tax Dollars
Article 134. Stop Complaining and Do It!
Article 135. Eliminating Road Blocks to Government Innovation
Article 136. The best Example of Why Work Measurement Should be used by Government
Article 137. Role of Lean Facilitator and Budget Analyst
Article 138. State Information Technology Centralized Data Centers
Article 139. Passing the Torch for Change to the Millennial Generation
Article 140. Saving Jobs by Requiring the Manufacturing Company to Reform
Article 141. 2010 The Year of the Perfect Fiscal Storm for States
Article 142. Huge Savings from State Centralized Services
Article 143. Examples of a Relational Database Management System
Article 144. Why States Lose Millions by Using Obsolete Computer Systems
Article 145. The Coming Revolution in Information Technology Systems
Article 146. Cost Cutting a State Priority but Where to Cut?
Article 147. What Should a Governor be Doing Now? Sept 2009
Article 148. Where Less is More Efficient
Article 149. Secret and Not so Secret Methods for Downsizing
Article 150. The Biggest Boondoggle Ever in State Information Technology
Article 151. The Promise of Going ‘Lean’
Article 152. The Process of Replacing Bureaucratic Management With Lean Teams
Article 153. Example of the Advantage of a Relational Database
Article 154. Streamlining Iowa Boards and Commissions Using Lean and More
Article 155. Why not Privatize State Government- All of It?
Article 156. Getting the most out of Lean as used in Government
Article 157. Using Lean to Balance Agency work Loads
Article 158. The Streamlining of Georgia Boards and Commissions Using Lean
Article 159. Mean, Lean Reform In Government Accounting
Article 160. Minnesota State Government Leads the Nation in Lean
Article 161. IBM The Most Costly Hoax of the Century
Article 162. Bringing Virginia’s State Government Back on Track
Article 163. Solving New York State’s Roadblocks to Reform
Article 164. Minnesota Could Lead the Nation in Efficient Government
Article 165. Reform of Government Legislative Practices
Article 166. Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril
Article 167. Ideas for Rebuilding Inner Cities
Article 168. Stabilizing State Economies by Creating and Protecting Jobs
Article 169. Why Major Attempts to Fix Information Technology Are Failing
Article 170. Three Government Reform Models
Article 171. Using Lean Approach to Collapse the Time to Implement Reforms