Government

Resources— White Papers, Brochures, and Fact Sheets

White Papers

Scorecarding for the Public Sector
Brett Knowles, one of North America's leading authorities on the Balanced Scorecard, discusses some unique public sector issues and proven solutions.

Measure to Comply, Measure to Perform: A Government Performance White Paper
Some government agencies have gone beyond using data simply to satisfy compliance requirements and report performance. Find out how they learned to find stories in their data that help them achieve better societal outcomes at a lower cost.

Government Performance Management
Read how Cognos performance management helps government agencies leverage information and resources to engage the workforce, boost productivity, improve efficiencies, and deliver better services to the public.

Developing Performance Measures in a Social Services Agency
Find out why more and more human service agencies are developing performance measures systems as part of their management process.

Riding the Transformation Wave in Government with Performance Management and Next-Generation Business Intelligence

Get Results through Performance Management
Find out why a bipartisan group of current and former government executives, business leaders, public management scholars, and journalists urge you to make results-focused management a priority.

Fact Sheets

BI Standardization in the Public Sector

Find out why city and county governments are finding performance management essential to good service and liveable cities

Results-based Government with performance management software

Performance Management for Civilian Agencies

IBM Cognos 8 Workforce Performance for Government

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IBM Cognos Government Performance Blueprints
Cognos solutions for Defense , Education, and No Child Left Behind.

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IBM Cognos 8 BI Reporting

Online Demo

See real-world scenarios for casual business users and professional authors.

Government Customer Story Bundle

Success Story

Find out how public sector organizations like the US Marine Corps and the City of Albuquerque are reducing costs and making better decisions with Cognos.

Government Performance Management

White Paper

Read how Cognos performance management helps government agencies leverage information and resources to engage the workforce, boost productivity, improve efficiencies, and deliver better services to the public.

Scorecarding for the Public Sector

White Paper

Brett Knowles, one of North America's leading authorities on the Balanced Scorecard, discusses some unique public sector issues and proven solutions.

Reporting & Scorecarding in Municipal Government

White Paper

Read how city and county governments are making sense of their data to show good stewardship and better serve citizens.

CFO of the U.S. Department of Defense, Tina Jonas

Podcast

Tina Jonas speaks about good stewardship, clean audits, and the executive budget dashboard she can't do without.