Collins Center to Host Major Conference on Performance Management

The Collins Center is proud to announce that it will be hosting an important conference on "Delivering Results: Implementing Performance Management in Massachusetts". 

The all-day event will be held on February 14th in UMass Boston's harbor view Campus Center. Governor Deval Patrick, the members of his Cabinet and the country's highest-ranking performance management official are expected to participate.

Never before have states been under greater pressure to make government more efficient and effective. In today's environment, government has to stretch every tax dollar to provide its citizens with needed services. This conference will bring together a broad mix of Massachusetts government leaders, as well as municipal and federal officials, legislators, academics, officials from other states, representatives of public policy foundations and institutes to review how the Commonwealth is using the techniques of Performance Management to accomplish the Administration's goals.

The Center has been working for over a year with the Administration to coordinate the design and implementation of a performance management system for the Commonwealth. This system, when fully operational, will be one of the most sophisticated and rigorous in the country and is already attracting serious interest from a number of other states.

Participants will hear from experts in the field as well as seasoned practitioners, and learn how to use a series of common sense practices to improve government performance and enhance public trust. Attendees will learn how to establish measureable goals and objectives; how to drive goals and strategies through all levels of their agencies; how to measure outcomes against goals; and how to use date in real time to identify and fix problems.