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DAVID E. OSBORNE
GOVERNMENT REFORM LEADER
Co-Author of Reinventing Government, David Osborne has the answers for reforming government to make it more efficient and effective.
It’s Broke, So Fix It: Government, says David Osborne, has reached a state of permanent fiscal crisis that requires old solutions be discarded in favor of new ones. In his latest book, The Price of Government, and in his illuminating presentations, Osborne provides audiences with groundbreaking ideas for revamping government – to make it serve the needs of its people.
Visionary Advisor: A visionary thinker, Osborne served on the frontlines as a senior advisor on Vice President Al Gore’s National Performance Review. Currently a managing partner of The Public Strategies Group, Osborne helps public sector audiences rethink the way they lead – looking at the critical issues facing the reinvention of their organizations.
Author: Osborne is the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Reinventing Government and Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government. Most recently, he co-authored of The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in An Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis.
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The Price of Government Governments, both local and federal, are enduring their worst fiscal crises since World War II. And leaders continue trying to relieve the fiscal pain with accounting gimmicks, one-time fixes, spending cuts and tax and fee increases, to no avail. And the bankrupt ideologies of both parties offer little guidance. In this presentation, David Osborne goes beyond left and right to show a third way: a results-based government that gives citizens the outcomes they want at a price they are willing to pay. By defining the results citizens value the most, Osborne demonstrates how leaders can use consolidation, competition, customer choice and a relentless focus on results to save millions while improving public services at all levels of government.
Budgeting in Tough Times: A 12-Step Program to Improve Services While Cutting Spending Four years ago public officials across the nation were promoting their tax cuts and rebates. Today, the same leaders are announcing staggering shortfalls and cutbacks. But big fiscal challenges always bring with them big opportunities. Rather than resorting only to traditional medicine – raising taxes, cutting spending, and using reserves or accounting gimmicks to put off dealing with today’s fiscal realities – public leaders should look to the many innovations that have been pioneered over the past two decades to wring more bang out of the government buck. David Osborne provides audiences with a dozen concrete ways to do more with less – strategies that can reduce spending without undermining valuable public services.
Finding the Leverage for Change: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government David Osborne describes of the five most powerful strategies developed by reinventors around the world, along with the tools necessary to implement them. This talk is designed to give anyone interested in dramatically improving the performance of a public organization hands-on guidance about how to make it happen.
Post-Industrial Politics: The Third Way David Osborne outlines how American (and international) politics has changed as we have moved from the industrial era to the information age; why voters are seeking a “third way“ that is neither big-government liberalism nor anti-government conservatism; and what this third way – fiscally moderate, nonbureaucratic but activist government – actually looks like in practice.
21st Century Leadership David Osborne outlines the ten roles effective leaders play in reinvented public or private organizations, and where the capacity for that kind of leadership comes from.
Performance Management David Osborne shows you hot to measure performance and hold people and organizations accountable, complete with „lessons learned“ from public organizations around the world, „pitfalls to avoid,“ and „do’s and don’ts.
Strategic Management In this talk, David Osborne addresses government’s most difficult challenge: how those leading communities, states, and nations can define the future they want, then align every public organization to help create that future. He introduces “steering” tools such as community visioning, outcome goals, steering organizations, budgeting for outcomes, and strategic evaluation. Osborne helps leaders understand how to combine these tools into a new strategic management system that continually refreshes the community’s vision and goals and keeps its government organizations focused on achieving them.
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- The Price of Government
- Budgeting in Tough Times
- Finding the Leverage for Change
- Post-Industrial Politics: The Third Way
- 21st Century Leadership
- Performance Management
- Strategic Management
