To facilitate the transition to a new administration, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued its 2016 Presidential Transition Guide. The Guide provides the incoming administration and agency officials with transition responsibilities a detailed description of the various rules, regulations and policies that govern the establishment of transition teams.
This infographic outlines some of the presidential transition tasks the candidates’ teams will take on in the summer before the election.
This infographic describes the first 100 days of the presidential transition.
This infographic describes the national security risks of a poorly executed transition and the need to get appointees with national security responsibilities in early in an administration
Companion piece to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Nominee Ethics Guide includes financial disclosure checklists, rules for reporting and ongoing financial reporting requirements.
WASHINGTON— Partnership for Public Service President and CEO Max Stier released the following statement on Secretary Hillary Clinton announcing the leaders of her transition team today:
“Secretary Clinton has taken an important step of naming former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar; Tom Donilon, former National Security advisor to President Barack Obama; former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm; Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress; and Maggie Williams, director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, to lead her transition team.
The task of managing our federal government is large and complex, and it is encouraging that the presidential candidates are preparing to govern even while they vigorously campaign. Secretary Clinton’s commitment to establishing the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project signals that she understands the enormous responsibility a president assumes on day one in the Oval Office.”
The nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, through its Center for Presidential Transition, brings together the administration, transition teams, federal agencies, Congress and outside experts to ensure smooth and safe presidential transitions. As part of this work, the Partnership has developed a management roadmap for the next administration, engaged Congress in promoting reforms to the presidential transition process, assisted 2016 presidential candidates and their transition teams, and created curriculum to prepare incoming presidential appointees to succeed.
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This guide contains the Center for Presidential Transition’s recommendations for agency review efforts before and after the election. It outlines the information that agency review and landing teams need to gather to best inform comprehensive policy implementation plans and briefing documents for appointees. Included are two practical table of contents that can be modified by transition teams.
These graphics show the stakeholders and interrelationships in the federal budget process. The first graphic overlays the status of the three fiscal year budgets that are managed concurrently. The second includes more detail for an ideal budget cycle.
According to a 2015 survey by Pew Research, only 20 percent of the public believes the federal government runs its programs well, with 59 percent reporting that the government is in need of “very major reform.” With rates of trust in government at an all-time low, technology and innovation will be essential to achieve the next administration’s goals and deliver services more effectively and efficiently to the American people.
In this report, “Encouraging and Sustaining Innovation in Government: A Technology and Innovation Agenda for the Next Administration,” authors Beth Simone Noveck and Stefaan Verhulst provide a set of recommendations for how incoming leaders can use innovation as a catalyst in achieving the administration’s priorities.
This is the fourth whitepaper in our Management Roadmap series, published jointly by the Partnership for Public Service and the IBM Center for The Business of Government. The reports share lessons learned from roundtable dialogues with key stakeholders, identifies promising initiatives and offers ideas on successful implementation. The project will culminate with a Management Roadmap capstone report later this year incorporating lessons from all four whitepapers.