The Leadership Operating System: How Modern Government Leaders Structure Their Week

Modern government leaders face an increasingly complex operating environment that requires balancing strategy, workforce engagement, risk oversight, and innovation. High-performing executives often structure their week using a leadership operating system that ensures time is intentionally allocated across these critical priorities. By creating a disciplined leadership rhythm, public-sector leaders can strengthen organizational performance and sustain mission… Read more »

Why Do Agencies Need Enterprise Risk Management?

As the government’s complete reliance on digital technologies expands, it becomes harder to secure the growing network of new devices, IT systems and cloud solutions. In short, the network is the mission.

Do You Know Your Digital Risk?

The need for risk management in government has grown along with agencies’ digital footprints. As complexity increases, so does vulnerability.

Minnesota’s Strategy for Using Scorecards to Better Communicate Risk

To help other government officials understand risk and their role in minimizing it, Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) created Risk Management Scorecards that have fostered communication — and security — since 2015.

Calibrating Your Digital Risk in a Rapidly Evolving World

Agencies need a unified approach to managing digital risks to securely and efficiently operate in today’s digital environment.

How to Wring the Fear Out of Risk

This approach enables you to replace fear and doubt with data and information. It also allows you to provide insights into your organization’s risk posture, keeps your boss from going fetal, and lets you live to fight another day– which is the main thing.

Having Candid Conversations Before Bad Things Happen

The Office of Management and Budget released in July a long-awaited update to their guidance to agencies on steps they should take to manage – not avoid — expected and unexpected risks to their operations

“What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”

Do self confident, optimistic leaders ask this question often enough, at the right time? Risk experts Doug Webster and Tom Stanton think not. Writing in a new report for the IBM Center for The Business of Government, they observe: “The front pages of national newspapers constantly report on actions by private companies, federal leaders, orRead… Read more »

Student Aid: Pioneers in Managing Risk

The Office of Federal Student Aid put in place the first formalized risk management framework in the federal government, starting its efforts in 2004. What does it look like? How did they do it? One former federal leader, Todd Grams, observes that agencies that ignore risk are actually creating risk. Not surprisingly, there has beenRead… Read more »

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