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Part 1

1) Questions About Second Paper

As you know, your second paper will focus on a project requiring you to engage in picking an agency and program to examine, and then creating a mission statement, logic model and performance measures for theprogram.

For this thread, what are your questions about the overall exercise? Do you understand what is being asked of you, and how to begin the process of getting ready to write-up these areas of the paper?

2)What questions do you have about how mission statements are to be used in relation to the second paper project?

3) What questions do you have about how logic models are to be used in relation to the second paper project?

4)What questions do you have about how performance measures are to be used in relation to the second paper project?

5)Final Examination

COLLAPSE

What questions do you have about the final examination?

Part 2

6) Surf the web and find a balanced scorecard. Post it to this thread and tell us what you think is done well, or poorly, in your example.

Part 3

8) Identify one issue you are interested in where you can explain the connection between leadership and performance measurement. Explain how, if at all, the course has helped you understand this relationship

9) This week we are examining advances in technology that are impacting the world of performance measurement. What other things do you think we need to be keeping in mind as topics for the future in this course? What should government leaders be on the lookout for as we go forward?

10) Don Kettl talks about big data being something of a game changer for government performance systems in 10 important ways. Out of his list, which do you think is the most important? And which do you think is the least important? Why?

11) After reading the Safir Blog post about the use of artificial intelligence in local government, do you think there are issues the government needs to be concerned with regarding this emerging technology? Safir only discusses benefits. Are there costs? What could go right here? What could go wrong?

12) What did you find to be the main lessons from this week's discussion board, lecture notes, and readings?