On the campaign trail, the presidential candidates promise swift action on policy promises. Come January, the next occupant of the Oval Office will need to transform these campaign promises into policies and programs that produce positive outcomes for the American people. During the past year, the Partnership for Public Service and the IBM Center for The Business of Government held roundtable dialogues with a wide range of experts to inform the next president and the new administration’s team about critical management issues. Through these discussions and accompanying reports we have developed a management roadmap for the next administration.
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This infographic describes the first 100 days of the presidential transition.
Over the last year, the Partnership for Public Service and the IBM Center for The Business of Government have held a series of roundtable discussions with key government leaders and stakeholders to develop a Management Roadmap for the next administration. This roadmap will share lessons learned, identify promising initiatives and offer ideas on successful implementation.
Our first roundtable and report focused on executive talent. Our second roundtable discussion was centered on how to create an ecosystem for cross-agency collaboration in the new administration. In the new report, “Building an Enterprise Government,” Jane E. Fountain outlines a framework that the next president and agency executives can use to formulate strategic priorities, modernize management processes and build capacity to achieve cross-agency goals.
In the coming months, we will release additional reports on related management topics. We invite you to learn more about the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition and the Management Roadmap.
The first comprehensive map of the presidential transition process across six work streams detailing the complexity of the process across the major stakeholders. The stakeholders represented include the transition team (agency review, policy implementation, presidential appointments, and operations and support), outgoing White House, agencies and transition service providers (General Services Administration, Office of Government Ethics, National Archives and Records Administration, Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice). This file was created by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Center for Presidential Transition. It is formatted for a 60×60 poster.
This sample job description notes a summary of the role, reporting relationship, accountabilities and key competencies of a transition team’s head of agency review.
General instructions for the Romney transition concerning the priorities of the first 200 days of the administration.
This sample job description notes a summary of the role, reporting relationship, accountabilities and key competencies of a transition team’s head of policy.
These brief biographies detail the careers those chosen to lead the presidential appointments, agency review, operations and policy teams during the Obama-Biden and Romney-Ryan transitions.
Talking points for the Romney Transition leadership to communicate to employees and volunteers.
Memo from Romey team reaching out to Capitol Hill relationships ahead of the confirmation process for his political appointees.
